Word: vitaminized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anguished adolescent who feels disfigured by the pimples of acne, many doctors merely give a reassuring "You'll grow out of it," and let it go at that. At the other extreme, dermatologists have tried every conceivable remedy-vitamin A, vaccines, soaps, yeast, antiseptics, astringents, diets, hormones, ultraviolet and X rays, warnings against "picking." Despite such efforts, acne continues to afflict vast numbers of adolescents (variously estimated as 50% to 90%), many with skin-scarring, soul-searing severity...
...names for themselves: such musicians as Franz Liszt, Bela Bartok, Zoltan Kodaly, Eugene Ormandy, Joseph Szigeti and Sigmund Romberg; such theatrical personalities as Alexander Korda, Ferenc Molnar, the Gabor sisters, Ilona Massey and Leslie Howard (real name: Arpad Steiner); such scientists as Nobel Prizewinner Albert Szent-Gyorgyi (discoverer of vitamin C) and Mathematician John Von Neumann; such public figures as David Lilienthal, onetime chairman of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, H-bomb Pioneer Edward Teller, Socialist Eugene V. Debs...
...Druggists were bombarded with a publicity barrage based on a report in Industrial Medicine & Surgery that remedies containing bioflavonoids, e.g., vitamin-like citrus extracts, were 74% effective against common colds among McDonnell Aircraft Corp. employees. But simultaneously came two reports in the A.M.A. Journal showing bioflavonoids useless against colds in Dartmouth College students and Sylvania Electric Products, Inc. workers. Warned the U.S. Food & Drug Administration's Dr. Albert H. Holland Jr.: "A cold is still a cold, and facts are facts...
...long; the toughest of them begin at 7 a.m. and end at 3 a.m. the next day, only to begin again at 7. When Nixon was hit by the flu in September (TIME, Oct. 8), he refused to slow down, ordered his doctor to stoke him with antibiotics and vitamin pills and spray his throat with cortisone. Although he eats little on campaign tours (a light breakfast, a sandwich on the road, a snack before his evening speech, an attempt at dinner afterward), he actually gained two pounds on his first tour, has maintained an even weight of about...
...Occurs when bearing surfaces in joints lose their smooth mobility. Resulting handicap may be negligible or severe; it is rarely disabling. Aspirin helps to ease pain, as does heat (hot baths or heating pads); injection of hydrocortisone into a particular joint may give relief for months. A well-balanced, vitamin-rich diet is good for an oldster's general wellbeing, but has no direct relationship to the disease. Still incurable, but can often be relieved...