Word: vitamined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pleasing vitamin in music is consonance, as in such agreeable harmonies as the standard Do Mi Sol Do. When composers wish to ennoble, invigorate or inspire their listeners (as for example in the opening bars of the Star-Spangled Banner) they depend heavily on consonances. An upsetting virus in music is dissonance, a combination of sounds full of sonorous tension which may produce anything from vague impatience to acute aural distress. When composers wish to disturb their listeners, make them weep, sigh or foam at the mouth, they do it with dissonances...
...treatment was tried by 25 patients. After a week on 100-mg. doses of vitamin C a day, eight out of 24 thought they felt a little better, one got a rash and quit. When the dose was upped to 200 mg. a day, one patient reported "no hay fever at all after years of suffering." Those who felt a little better before began feeling a lot better, and some who had not benefited from 100-mg. doses began to perk...
...begins at 15). After a few days all except two felt fine. An asthma invalid became "astonishingly vigorous and healthy after one week." (But asthmatics sometimes improve on sugar pills - sometimes their illness is largely mental.) In a burst of bravery, sufferer No. 25, who had previously taken no vitamin C at all, took a 1,000-mg. dose. Next day he experienced "great relief...
...Holmes, president of the American Chemical Society and head of Oberlin's chemistry department, has long worked on vitamins and body chemistry, was first to isolate pure vitamin A in crystalline form (TIME, April 26, 1937). In an interview last fortnight he listed other recent uses for vitamin C: intravenous injection of one gram in solution for shock (another instance when blood histamine is high); in wound healing; for insomnia; in treating industrial workers exposed to toxic dusts. If people taking vitamin C by mouth are troubled by its acid reaction, he advises them to mix a little bicarbonate...
Unlike many other drugs, there is no shortage of vitamin C. The U.S. will soon produce it at the rate of 100 tons a year...