Word: vitamined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Northwestern University Dental School's Dr. Leonard S. Fosdick & co-workers may have found an answer. Reporting in the Journal of Dental Research, the experimenters released some long-awaited data on acid-decreasing synthetic vitamin K (2-methyl-1, 4-napthoquinone). They hit on the idea of spreading it on chewing gum. For the experiment, 55 Northwestern students faithfully chomped vitamin K-coated gum for ten minutes after each meal. Another 45 chewed untreated gum. A third group chewed nothing...
Result: after 18 months, the vitamin K chewers had 60% to 90% fewer new cavities than the others. The experimenters noted with interest that vitamin K gum seemed more effective than highly publicized fluorinated drinking water (TIME, April...
Until the happy day when vitamin-coated gum-or some other near-magic-can stop tooth decay for. good, Pittsburgh's Dr. I. Franklin Miller suggests that dentists apply a smooth brand of psychology along with the drill. Dr. Miller recommends: waiting rooms full of knick-knacks to divert waiters; all the instruments of torture hidden; soft music, coffee and cigarets during "ten-minute breaks" in the grinding and probing...
...tireless joiner, public speaker and partygoer, Palmer Hoyt gets around like no other Oregonian. He drinks his whiskey and gobbles his vitamin pills with equal gusto. His appetite for civic wheelhorsing has never been sated. He helped bring Henry Kaiser to Portland. As Oregon's first War Bond director, he put the state at the head of the U.S. in sales. His methods became the pattern for the national bond drives. In 1943 Hoyt slaved for six months as OWI's domestic director, fought hard to keep war news flowing free from needless and petty censorship...
More specific was the charge of Dr. Elizabeth Gourlay, a London school doctor. Said she: "We have never had so many multiple boils, sores, rashes and scurvy. . . . With regard to vitamin C, we have been reduced to an almost 18th-Century plight...