Word: vitaminous
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...believed that somehow the growth of cancer was related to vitamin deficiency. According to standard laboratory methods, he produced cancers in young mice by coating them with tar for several weeks. The offspring of these mice were fed a diet rich in vitamins A, B, C, D and E. One day, Dr. Davidson found to his surprise that they were no longer susceptible to cancer when tarred. From the tissues of "newly dropped young" of these resistant mice, Dr. Davidson made a boiled filtrate. Injections of this filtrate, plus a high vitamin diet, produced strong cancer resistance in ordinary mice...
...Vitamin C. While conning statistics of a poliomyelitis epidemic in Australia last year, Bacteriologist Claus W. Jungeblut of Columbia noticed that patients with ill-balanced diets suffered far more from the disease than those who had lots of vitamin C. Dr. Jungeblut put the statistics to experimental test, by going to work on some monkeys. He dribbled small amounts of polio virus into the noses of 56 monkeys, then gave them injections of natural vitamin C. Result: 33 monkeys (59%) became mildly sick, but had no fever or paralysis. The remaining 23 "developed complete or partial paralysis of the extremities...
...seems safe to state," said Dr. Jungeblut, "that under certain restricted experimental conditions, vitamin C is capable of influencing favorably the course of the infection in monkeys." The vitamin does not relieve paralytic symptoms, he continued, but merely checks the course of the disease before paralysis sets in. Dr. Jungeblut has not yet tried vitamin C injections in human patients, but he feels sure that "a low level of vitamin C nutrition predisposes to infection and severity of attack...
...provinces of British India, especially after Mahatma Gandhi declared that British India could be dry in three years, that prohibition would be one of the Congress' first proofs of its ability to rule India. On moral grounds wets put up a feeble fight, claiming that Indian liquors contained Vitamin B and made for healthy babies. This prohibitionists answered by declaring that drunkards were violent and that there was "no need to drink Vitamin B and beat your wife." But on financial grounds, wets were powerful. In many an Indian province liquor taxes account for 25% of total revenue. Liquor...
Various medications have been used for relief of tic, such as alcohol injections, salicylates, trichlorethylene. Latest proposed treatment is Vitamin B 1 (TIME, May 8). But all these treatments are palliative, none gives permanent relief. Surgical cutting of nerves in the face was tried as early as 1748. Since then the surgical technique has been refined to include cutting of nerve roots and ganglions in the brain...