Word: vitaminic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
From the University of California, Drs. Herbert M. Evans and K. S. Bishop last week announced through the California State Board of Health the influence of the mysterious Vitamin X which they now have renamed E. This vitamin stimulates reproduction in animals, prevents sterility. It is a complex organic compound, like the four other known vitamins,* and occurs in lettuce, wheat germs, alfalfa and egg yolk. Because humans eat largely of these foods, the discovery has little bearing on their habits...
...Dayton, Assistant Dean of the Yale Medical School, reported last week that Japanese researches into the causes of cancer have established a connection between cancer and nutrition. Scientists of the National Nutrition Institute of Japan have been able to produce cancer in rats by giving them foods deficient in vitamin A. This is the second time that cancer has been produced experimentally in living organisms, and according to Dr. Dayton, it will exert a vital influence on the study of the disease...
...Vitamin. Experiments with the diet of white rats disclosed that on a certain diet they will thrive but will not produce young or, if they have young, will not have sufficient milk to feed them, will become nervous, irritable, cross with the young and even eat them. Olive, peanut, soy bean and peach kernel-oil were found to restore and promote fertility but failed to produce lactation (that is, milk for the young). The seeds of wheat, corn, hemp produced fertility and lactation. From these facts are inferred the existence of a new vitamin, called Vitamin E or Vitamin...
Prof. H. Steenbock gave the details of his cure for rickets. He has succeeded in effecting this cure in rats by exposing the animals to violet rays from a quartz mercury lamp. He has, it is also believed, discovered a new vitamin in olive oil, helpful to those who have diabetes...
...bios" problem, with G. H. Lucas and others, found that "bios" was divisible into two substances, "Bios I" and "Bios II,"* both stimulating yeast growth in some measure, although not necessarily indispensable to it. They disagree with Eddy and Williams as to the identity of the "bioses" with Vitamin B, having made experiments which seem to disprove any constant relation, although both are frequently present in the same food. McCollum believes the term vitamin should be reserved for nutritional factors absolutely essential to the growth of mammals rather than for those factors merely highly stimulatory to organic life...