Word: vitamined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nicotinic acid, one of the elements of the Vitamin B complex, is found in liver, yeast, milk, green vegetables, fish and lean meat. It is a cure for pellagra, a diet-deficiency disease common in the southern U. S. but virtually unknown in Britain. Since the filmy, bleeding gums of trench mouth are similar to the symptoms of early pellagra, Dr. King had a hunch that trench mouth, too, might be caused by nicotinic acid deficiency which broke down gum tissue, paved the way for bacterial invasion. So he fed small amounts of the acid dissolved in water...
...raids and the scores of malnutrition diseases. These range from nerve destruction and insanity to sterility, night blindness, softening of the bones. Danes have not forgotten the terrible eye disease which swept their country in 1917, when they exported so much of their fresh butter, rich in Vitamin A. To forestall such eye trouble, margarine companies in Britain will fortify their products with the same proportion of vitamins found in butter...
...Vitamin K: for hemorrhage...
...Vitamin D (calciferol): for rickets, nervous spasms, softening of the bones, acne, psoriasis...
...Vitamin E (alpha-tocopherol): for sterility, muscle weakness, diseases caused by degeneration of nerves...