Word: vitamined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sometimes, in Southern California, the fleas get so bad that people can't enjoy the wonderful, dry weather. Casting about for a remedy, Santa Barbara's Dr. Howard L. Eder decided to dose his patients with thiamin chloride (vitamin BI)-a treatment which had proved successful in repelling mosquitoes...
...amazement, he found that liberal dosing (internal, not external) with the vitamin made his patients-and even their dogs-repulsive to fleas. In six months, the fleas began to get interested again...
...Vitamin pills were consumed regularly, when they were available, but many Tokyo-ites relied for defense against the dreaded common cold upon a door sign that said: "Hisamatsu does not live here...
...Vitamin-enriched beer...
Corporal Newman thumbed his nose at death, took another vitamin pill, some more of his mother's biscuits...