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Northwestern University Dental School's Dr. Leonard S. Fosdick & co-workers may have found an answer. Reporting in the Journal of Dental Research, the experimenters released some long-awaited data on acid-decreasing synthetic vitamin K (2-methyl-1, 4-napthoquinone). They hit on the idea of spreading it on chewing gum. For the experiment, 55 Northwestern students faithfully chomped vitamin K-coated gum for ten minutes after each meal. Another 45 chewed untreated gum. A third group chewed nothing...
Result: after 18 months, the vitamin K chewers had 60% to 90% fewer new cavities than the others. The experimenters noted with interest that vitamin K gum seemed more effective than highly publicized fluorinated drinking water (TIME, April...
More specific was the charge of Dr. Elizabeth Gourlay, a London school doctor. Said she: "We have never had so many multiple boils, sores, rashes and scurvy. . . . With regard to vitamin C, we have been reduced to an almost 18th-Century plight...
Sometimes, in Southern California, the fleas get so bad that people can't enjoy the wonderful, dry weather. Casting about for a remedy, Santa Barbara's Dr. Howard L. Eder decided to dose his patients with thiamin chloride (vitamin BI)-a treatment which had proved successful in repelling mosquitoes...
...amazement, he found that liberal dosing (internal, not external) with the vitamin made his patients-and even their dogs-repulsive to fleas. In six months, the fleas began to get interested again...