Word: vitamins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vitamin D made by irradiating ergosterol...
...material for new growth, to replace its waste tissue. Researchers, including Dr. Hopkins, discovered that animals fed on "pure" diets lost weight and died. He found (1906) that a little milk in the diet kept the animals from dying and concluded that the milk must contain some unknown ingredient (vitamin...
Many a U. S. nutritionist declared last week, without carping at the Nobel award to Professors Hopkins and Eijkman, that, if a future Nobel Prize for vitamin research is made, it should go to Professor Elmer Verner McCollum, 50, head of the department of chemical hygiene at Johns Hopkins school of hygiene & public health. He too was an early revealer of the vitaminic essentials for diet...
...Vitamin A prevents the eye disease xerophthalmania; Vitamin B3 prevents beriberi in man and polyneuritis in fowl; Vitamin B2 prevents pellagra; Vitamin C prevents scurvy; Vitamin D prevents rickets; Vitamin E prevents sterility...
Lovell Langstrotk of San Francisco reported that he improved the condition of middle-aged patients with rheumatism, heart disease, diabetes and other degenerative diseases by feeding them largely on vitamin-bearing foods?eggs, milk, fruit, vegetables...