Word: vitaminous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deciding whether to give the 1937 Nobel Prize ($40,000) for Medicine to: 1) Biochemist Ibert Szent-Györgyi of the Hungarian University of Szeged who discovered that a certain acid (ascorbic) in the adrenal glands of healthy men and animals had the same beneficial effect as Vitamin C contained in oranges and lemons; 2) Biochemist Walter Norman Haworth of Birmingham (England) University, who analyzed the chemical structures of Vitamin C and the ascorbic acid which Professor Szent-Györgyi isolated; or 3) Biochemist Paul Karrer of the University of Zurich, Switzerland, who made Vitamin C artificially...
...only vitamins which the clerk in the grocery and the cook in the kitchen know about are A for clear vision, B for sound nerves, C for healthy muscles and D for sturdy bones. Nutritionists, however, know that there are at least six kinds of vitamin B, eight D's, three H's and a K. Each of these should be assigned a separate letter, according to the nomenclature suggested by Casimir Funk, a Polish biochemist who in 1911 invented the word vitamin to describe these food elements essential to good health. But there are not enough letters...
...Once upon a time life with the vitamins was simple. One drank pine needle tea (or vitamin C extract) to cure his scurvy. Now the average vitamin student is afflicted with as many alphabetical vitamins as Job was with boils...
...remedy this accursed condition, funny Vitaminologist McCay proposed that the League of Nations begin a vitamin registry to identify vitamins by numbers. Then "when a new vitamin is to be postulated, the discoverer will need only to address a postcard to the central agency. Thus if a specific growth factor is discovered for moose by some nutrition student working in northern Ontario, he will only need address a request to the central agency. By return mail he will be assigned some number such as 1,572, and this will be recorded thenceforth. As specific properties of this number are developed...
They live in row houses one block long, keep their windows closed and shades down to prevent the entry of dust . . . and sunshine. Their main items of diet: potatoes, cabbage and squash let them grow beyond the limits of plumpness. They mistrust science and its balanced meal and vitamin instruction, are susceptible to goitre...