Word: vitaminous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that nerve damage in alcoholics was caused by the alcohol itself. Dr. Jolliffe, an international authority on the physiology and pathology of heavy tippling, doubted this. Polyneuritis seemed to him more like a deficiency disease, such as the Oriental malady called beriberi which is also caused by lack of Vitamin B. Because alcohol is a food of high caloric content, it seemed to the scientist that many topers simply did not eat enough food to get enough of the vitamin. In every case where the vitamin intake was sufficient there was no polyneuritis...
...years and ate little solid food, but whose nerves were sound. Investigation revealed that the bartender poured every jigger of whiskey into a ten-ounce bar glass, filled it with milk, and drank that. The 75 ounces or so of milk thus consumed daily provided him with plenty of Vitamin...
...Pure Vitamin B was isolated from rice polishings by Robert R. Williams of Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1935, and later synthesized by Williams...
Kline of the Merck & Co. laboratories. From rice polishings it was very expensive but the synthetic manufacture is cheap. Merck & Co. markets the vitamin in one-gram, one-tenth-gram and one-hundredth-gram tablets but does not advertise to the public and sells only to the medical profession. Last week Dr. Jolliffe suggested that liquor makers might put a trace of the vitamin in their products before distributing them, by dissolving a half-milli-gram or so per pint. The cost to the liquor people would not be more than ½? a bottle. Or drinkers might buy their...
...Vitamin B does not prevent or cure hangovers...