Word: vitaminous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week in Chicago, Dr. William Mabley Muncy of Providence, R. I. suggested to his colleagues of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Otolaryngology a way of taking the blinding curse off tryparsamide. He had done it with a good old standby: vitamin...
Well knowing that vitamin B is essential for healthy nerves, Dr. Muncy bolstered up 50 neurosyphilitics with various forms of vitamin B before they got their routine tryparsamide injections. Some were given doses of cod-liver oil, as well as two yeast tablets a day; others were also given intravenous injections of the synthetic vitamin. Only one of the 50 suffered any disturbance of vision. When the vitamin was given to a number of tryparsamide "shock victims" whose eyes were already failing, they reported a quick and remarkable improvement...
...area, some 25% of all radios are traditionally tuned to Uncle Don at 6 p. m. E. S. T. In the last nine years the Greenwich Savings Bank in Manhattan opened 35,000 Uncle Don accounts. In one winter season with Uncle Don, I. V. C. Vitamin Pearls, a capsuled vitamin, increased its sales 125% with little other advertising...
...Essential for the prevention of rickets in children, Vitamin D regulates the amount of calcium and phosphorus which the body uses for building bones and teeth. Only vitamin which does not originate in plant tissue, vitamin D occurs most abundantly in oily fish livers, is generated in the body by ultraviolet rays of the sun. Normal U. S. adults get all the vitamin D they need when they bask on beaches, and, if they drink plenty of milk, need not worry about calcium regulation. But to make best use of the calcium in their diet, pregnant women and children need...
...Very little is known about the function of Vitamin E, found in wheat germ oil, lettuce and tomato oils. Certain it is that lack of this vitamin, as well as vitamin A, damages male reproductive tissues, produces abortion in the female. Although large doses of wheat germ oil have proved effective in stopping habitual abortion in pregnant women, Chemist Henry Albright Mattill, University of Iowa, cautiously concludes that, until more evidence is available, "attempts to produce a market for wheat germ oil among prospective parents generally are to be deprecated...