Word: vitaminsâ
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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...accidentally associated with Vitamin B. When an extract rich in B is shaken with Fuller's earth all its anti-neuritic power (power to cure beriberi, the chief characteristic of Vitamin B) is removed, though it continues to stimulate yeast. Funk therefore proposed that Vitamin B was really two vitamins???B, the anti-neuritic, and D, the yeast-stimulating. Dr. E. V. McCollum, of Johns Hopkins University, one of the pioneer American investigators of vitamins, has also used the term Vitamin D for a factor present in cod-liver oil that prevents rickets...
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