Word: vitaminic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, Business was more successful. Dr. Joseph Keats Marcus, onetime assistant professor of Chemistry at Columbia University, now an employe of Pitman-Moore Co., Indianapolis pharmaceutical manufacturers, has a process of quickly and efficiently extracting from cod livers the vitamins which promote growth and bone formations. Food manufacturers have bid for licenses to the Marcus process. To exploit that demand, shrewd businessmen last week organized for Dr. Marcus and themselves an International Vitamin Corp., with 200,000 no-par shares...
Died. Dr. Joseph Goldberger, 54, of the U. S. Public Health Service, discoverer of "vitamin PP" as a preventive of pellagra (disease resulting from unbalanced diet); of hypernephroma, a malignant growth on the kidneys resembling cancer; in the Naval Hospital, Washington, D. C. A martyr to science, he had within 15 years investigated and contracted the following diseases: typhus fever (Mexico City), yellow fever (New Orleans), bone-breaking fever (Brownsville...
...Liver Oil & Ergosterol. In cod-liver oil, is a substance which contains Vitamin D and which helps both to prevent and cure rickets (bone disease). That substance (provitamin) acts like a solid alcohol (sterol) and is believed to be ergosterol. If ergosterol is exposed to certain wave lengths of ultraviolet light for certain periods the potency of this provitamin is increased so powerfully that, for treating rickets, one ounce of it is as good as six tons of cod-liver oil.-Dr. Alfred Fabian Hess of Manhattan...
...annual meeting, last fortnight, of the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia-founded by Benjamin Franklin-Dr. Alfred Fabian Hess of Manhattan, famed vitamin-searcher, revealed results of his latest researches in the study of Vitamin D, which everyone knows is the one whose presence in the diet prevents rickets. Searcher Hess had found Vitamin D in fish-eggs, chicken-eggs, snake-eggs, as material for the early development of the species...
...case were legs and thighs splotched with extravasated blood, if no gums swelled spongily, if mucous membranes oozed no blood (scorbutic symptoms), then Explorer Stefansson would have proved-better than biologists could have proved in experiments with rats-that meat, at least freshly killed meat, contains Vitamin C and prevents scurvy, scourge of seafarers and Arctic explorers...