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...particular problem is as follows, in the general field of vitamin deficiency studies...
...Extension of studies now in progress on the mode of action of Vitamin C or ascorbic acid to include: (a) testing, with scorbutic guinea pigs, the activity of products intermediate in the synthesis of ascorbic acid from xylose; (b) the preparation and testing of substances formed by systematic changes in the structure of ascorbic acid; (c) an investigation of the manner in which ascorbic acid is produced by animals which are not subject to scurvy...
...Vitamin C. Precisely two centuries ago British mariners discovered that scurvy could be prevented or cured by eating citrous fruits. All in the past two years the anti-scurvy Vitamin C has been identified, its chemical structure determined, its synthetic preparation accomplished. The story was told last week by some of its principal figures...
...laboratory until 1907 when Hoist and Frolich inflicted it on guinea pigs, tested the curative potency of vegetables. In 1932 Professor A. Szent-Gyorgyi found that hexuronic acid from adrenal glands had powerful antiscorbutic properties, and soon thereafter the name was changed to ascorbic acid and identified with Vitamin C. After long search for raw material from which the vitamin could be mined in quantity, Szent-Gyorgyi turned to the paprika beds near his home in Hungary and in one day obtained a half-pound of his acid. In March last year, Professor Walter Norman Haworth of Birmingham. England determined...
Professor Szent-Gyorgyi talked about Vitamin C last week, admitted that as a medicinal tool it was too new for fulsome claims. But its application was clearly not limited to scurvy, rare in modern civilization. With it he reported cures of pyorrhea, Addison's disease, such