Word: vitaminous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...future when a man behaves in a criminal manner, we will not say he is crazy or vicious. . . . Instead we will know that too much pyruvic acid has accumulated in his thalamic cells, or that there is no cocarboxylase, a high-brow term for Vitamin BI, operating in his thalamus. We will be able to tell that he did not grow enough association neurones descending from his cortex, so that now he does not deliver enough acetylcholine to his mid-brain...
Findings: After six hours, clotting time of mature bleeder rats was reduced from, about nine minutes to three. Clotting time of normal male rats, normal dogs and bleeder dogs was reduced about 50%. Chicks which had been given a diet deficient in Vitamin K (bloodclotting vitamin found in leafy vegetables and cereals) showed a reduction in clotting time from about 17 minutes to five after sterol injections. Although the sterol acts like Vitamin K, said the scientists, it is an entirely different substance. Its effects lasted for several days...
...boyhood height. So brittle had his bones become that once when he bent to pick up a heavy weight he heard his spine crack. To bolster up his telescoped vertebrae doctors had tried three different leather corsets, three fabric corsets with iron stays, as well as heavy doses of Vitamin D, calcium, and ground eggshells. Dr. Meulengracht found that the patient had always had sufficient calcium in his diet, but that apparently little of it had been absorbed for many years. No textbook diagnosis explained his case...
...good hearty meal of corned beef, cabbage and boiled potatoes is not only a pleasure to the palate but a pretty pill, for the vegetables are rich in Vitamin C. But not everyone who tucks into this dish is assured of firm joints and healthy blood capillaries, for Vitamin C is a delicate thing, easily destroyed by combination with oxygen or improper cooking. Last week in Nature, Physiologists A. Høygaard and H. Waage Rasmussen of the University of Oslo, Norway reported the results of extensive potato-boiling. They found "16-19% more ascorbic acid [Vitamin C] left when...
Treatment is not standardized, varies according to the symptoms. For loss of appetite, Vitamin B may be prescribed; for rheumatic pains, artificial fever. Injection of typhoid-paratyphoid vaccine often stimulates the human body to produce antibodies which fight the disease. Recently, sulfanilamide has also proved of value...