Word: vitaminous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which did not get in. A Dutchman, Christian Eijkman, found that chickens which ate nothing but polished rice developed beriberi, but that if the chickens ate the rice coatings they got better. For a quarter century Dr. Robert Runnels Williams of Bell Telephone Laboratories labored to extract the mysterious "vitamin" from rice coatings, finally squeezed 1/6 oz. from a ton of raw material. Later Vitamin B 1 , as it is now called, was synthesized. The synthetic vitamin is also known as thiamin chloride...
Beriberi is an unfamiliar disease in the western world and Vitamin B 1 is so widely dispersed among staple articles of diet that B 1 deficiency is not especially common. In the lay mind it has been overshadowed lately by the "anti-infective" Vitamin A (fish oil, spinach, carrots, milk, butter, etc.), the anti-scurvy Vitamin C (orange juice, lettuce, celery, etc.) and the antirachitic Vitamin D (fish oil, egg yolks, irradiated foods, etc.). These are of acknowledged importance to human health. But the fact is that doctors are using "the forgotten vitamin," B 1 , in clinical treatment of sick...
...Vitamin B 1 has a special affinity for and healing action upon diseased nerve tissue, and its efficacy in treating nerve inflammation associated with alcoholism is spectacular (TIME, Jan. 17). In the A. M. A. Journal last week Dr. George R. Cowgill of Yale declared that the vitamin seemed to help in the metabolism of carbohydrates by acting as a coenzyme. Other than that it seemed to have no effect on normal organs, and overdoses did not hurt a normal body. The human system simply took what it needed and threw away the rest...
Eyes have two small types of elements on the retina, rods and cones. The rods are used in half light or in darkness, while the cones are used in color vision. It has already been known that there is a visional purple partly composed of vitamin A, which is used in seeing with the rods; it is this that has led to the recent research into the connection between night blindness and vitamin...
Describing the research work of the Harvard Dental School in the past year, Dean Miner reported that "no better example of the absolute inseparability of dental problems from medicine and biology can be found than in the studies of partial deficiencies of Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) pursued by a group of workers...