Word: vitaminous
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...Army, said half a dozen doctors in the Lancet and British Medical Journal, is merely a reflection of its prevalence among civilians of military age. In the Army, ulcer sufferers cannot keep comfortable by following delicate diets, but must eat heavy food. Also, fresh fruits and vegetables containing vitamin C, necessary for healing, were quite scarce last winter. That Army ulcers are aggravated by worry or fear, the doctors stoutly denied...
Every child can be given all the vitamin D it needs in one big dose at the beginning of each winter, and rickets can be conquered once & for all. That was the proposition Dr. Henry John Gerstenberger of Western Reserve presented to members of the American Medical Association last week. He reminded them of the shock ing but well-known fact that thousands of U.S. children are still weak, potbellied and spindly, because many mothers do not know enough to give their babies a daily teaspoon of vitamin-D-rich cod-liver oil or halibut-liver oil as a sunshine...
Instead of dosing children with oil (it seems to lose much of its power in the digestive tract), Dr. Gerstenberger injects it into their buttocks. He does not use fish oil, but its essential element-synthetic vitamin D3, dissolved in a cubic centimeter of cottonseed oil. The vitamin is gradually absorbed into the child's blood stream...
...healthy infants from rickets over this last winter. The injections are far cheaper than cod-liver oil, which is somewhat scarce at present.* For best results, he finds that the first injection should be given when a baby is a month old, and that no sunlamp or other vitamin treatment is necessary...
...strictly against the rules to feed a race horse little white pills to give it more pep. In baseball, not so. Last spring Manager Billy Southworth of the St. Louis Cardinals began dosing his players with vitamin B1 pills. Last week, as the baseball season neared its eighth week, the hopped-up Redbirds were going lickety-split in the National League pennant race...