Word: vitamins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...report for the New England Journal of Medicine Drs. Gajdusek and Zigas list the treatments they have tried: aspirin, sulfas, three antibiotics, cortisone, hydrocortisone, testosterone, phenobarbital, antihistamines, anti-epilepsy drugs, vitamin B, folic acid, liver extract and even a war-gas antidote, British Anti-Lewisite-all to no avail...
Nutrition experts from 22 Latin American states gathered in Guatemala City last week. Meeting under the joint sponsorship, of the World Health Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, their talk was of vitamin A and protein deficiency, carbohydrates and carotene. But behind the technical jargon, each delegate had his own mental case histories of poverty-crippled children back home with grotesquely protruding bellies, infected livers, horny thickening of the palms of their hands. Such symptoms are the result of the starchy foods (yams, corn meal, potatoes, plantains, rice) that make up a child...
Nine years in the developing, Mixture Eight was the discovery of Scrimshaw and two other nutrition scientists, Dr. Robert L. Squibb of Rutgers University and Dr. Moises Behar, a Guatemalan pediatrician. It contains 50% corn meal, 35% high-protein sesame meal, 9% cottonseed meal, 3% Kikuyu grass (for vitamin A) and 3% nonfermenting yeast. The mixture cooks into a tasty porridge or a cake that tastes like the familiar tortilla. Last year Scrimshaw tried it on a test group of Guatemalan children. Said Scrimshaw: "The children had swollen bellies, black skin, open sores, were apathetic, suffered from lack of appetite...
...Javert, 50, tells it, he was "an ignorant neophyte" in 1936 when he blithely prescribed a high-mineral, high-vitamin diet for a three-time aborter of 41, gave her full emotional reassurance, and was rewarded by delivering her normal baby-although older and supposedly wiser men were using more complex treatments. Since then it has not always been so easy, but Dr. Javert has an enviable record (and a large following of husbands and wives who are convinced that they would never have had children if they...
After personally supervising more than 200 pregnancies for women who had had three or more consecutive pregnancies ending in abortion. Javert developed a highly personal method of treatment. He still relies heavily on vitamins A. C and K. also on hesperidin (sold as a source of the controversial vitamin P) to discourage the premature bleeding which often signals (and may cause) abortions. He was one of the first to use tranquilizers. Impressed with the fact that many patients do not gain weight early in their pregnancies, but may actually lose, he encourages them to eat all they want then, watches...