Word: vitaminous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week at the Washington meeting of the National Academy of Sciences (see p. 65), Dr. Henry Borsook and associates* of the California Institute of Technology offered new hope to neural gia sufferers. The scientists knew that vitamin B 1 (anti-beriberi), which is found in yeast and fresh red meats, prevents nerve deterioration. On a hunch, they injected from ten to 100 mgm. of pure, synthetic vitamin B 1 directly into the veins of persons suffering from Tic Douloureux. The injection was repeated every day for six days a week. To the scientists' surprise, after several months...
...stubborn patients, however, were given a further course of injections. Along with pure vitamin B 1 they received large intramuscular doses of concentrated liver extract. All of them were soon relieved...
...research on the relation between vitamin A and the eye, George Wald, an instructor and tutor in Biology, has been awarded the annual $1000 Eli Lilly and Company Prize in Biological Chemistry, it was learned yesterday...
Wald explained the well-known observation that animals and men deprived of vitamin A become night-blind, by demonstrating that the light-sensitive pigment of most rods participates directly in a retinal cycle with vitamin...
From the rods of fresh-water fishes, he extracted the vitamin-nature of the substance now called vitamin A-2. From chicken retina he obtained the first light-sensitive pigment to be found in these structures...