Word: vitamins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...food cooked by the Adams Kitchen; the Dunster Kitchen; and the Kirkland Kitchen, which serves the other Houses, is purchased by Westcott. He goes over the menus of the stewards of the three establishments, making certain that they contain sufficient Vitamin A and protein, and then contacts the wholesale dealers. If the lima beans, which might have been served in Adams House, cost too much, he substitutes another cheaper vegetable...
...award in Chemistry (deferred from last year) went to Professor Richard Kuhn of Berlin, who isolated Vitamin B 2 (also called lactoflavin or riboflavin). The 1939 award in Chemistry was divided between Professor Adolf Butenandt, also of Berlin, and Professor Leopold Ruzicka of Zurich. Butenandt isolated the male sex hormone, androsterone, and Ruzicka first synthesized it from the fat of sheep's wool...
...Vitamins. Even in California, the land of oranges and lemons, said Dr. Emile Frederic Holman of San Francisco's Stanford University School of Medicine, "44% of ordinary run-of-the-mill patients [are] deficient in vitamin C and 13% [are] on the verge of scurvy." They have no reserve of healing "cement substances" in their blood, and not enough of the elements that build bones, teeth and cartilage. Since healing wounds of vitamin C-deficient guinea pigs have "inferior tensile strength, a disposition to gape ... a livid appearance, and a soft consistency," they rupture easily. Lack of vitamin...
...best operative success, all Dr. Holman's patients are fed six haliver oil capsules, four oranges, two lemons, and "some form of vitamin B" every day for at least five days before operation. In emergency operations vitamins C and B are injected just before and just after operation. "On the third day following operation, the vitamin concentrates are resumed by mouth and continued throughout the full convalescent period...
...this method of [tryparsamide] treatment can be made safe [by preparation with vitamin B]," said Dr. Muncy last week, "it may well be applied to all obstinate and long-standing cases of simple blood syphilis, thereby preventing them from passing over into a neurosyphilitic state. This would place neurosyphilis in the category of preventable diseases...