Word: vitamins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...likes to say that the man who buys a horse has only himself to blame if the horse keels over and dies. Only six weeks ago, a group of Manhattan traders bought the odd-looking business animal that LeBlanc had raised on Hadacol, a patent medicine comparable to a vitamin-enriched Manhattan cocktail (TIME, Sept. 10). This week it looked as if the horse they bought was about dead...
...Johns Hopkins' School of Hygiene and Public Health, 150 U.S. vitamin experts got together last week. Sample swap talk: "Anybody buying vitamin E is probably a sucker, since no case of deficiency in an adult has been found . . . But it might be good for Rh babies, and those with diabetic mothers . . . Despite an abundance of sunshine and vitamin D, there is still a lot of rickets in Baltimore...
...word "vitamine" had just been coined, but nobody had yet found one. By stuffing his animals with various food extracts, McCollum identified the first one -"A"-in butter. This made him ace-high with Wisconsin dairy farmers-until he broadcast the fact that it could be added to margarine. The word vitamine had its last letter chopped off and the family grew apace. After vitamin A came...
This unpleasant news was first uncovered last spring when Birmingham's city analyst, armed with a new $1,400 spectro-photometer,* began testing vitamin products taken from the shelves of Birmingham pharmacies. His report: 42% of the samples "advertised as containing specified amounts of vitamin A" were no good. In some shops, he found vitamin stocks that were 17 years old. In other cases vitamins had lost their punch through being exposed to the sun in window displays, or through being kept in humid closets and drawers...
Last week British drug manufacturers began withdrawing vitamin stocks worth-tens of thousands of dollars from stores all over Britain. Customers besieged druggists with half-consumed bottles of oil and pills, most of them bought with the taxpayers' money by Britain's National Health Service, demanding fresh merchandise. Said one Coventry vitamin votary: "I've suspected all along these pills were no good. Why, three of us came down with flu last winter...