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...Lederle scientists were working on vitamin B-12 (another growth promoter), one of whose sources is the fermentation product from which aureomycin is separated. To their astonishment, they found that this material had more effect on the growth of chicks than pure vitamin B-12 itself. When they investigated, they found that the small trace of aureomycin in the mixture was responsible. It worked with turkeys. It also worked with hogs, speeding their growth into marketable chops and bacon by as much...
Diet. In Tulsa, Okla., Dr. J.H. Taylor reported the theft from his home of five dozen fresh eggs and three bottles of vitamin tablets...
...Harvard man gets his cold cereal in conservative little boxes whose chief decoration is a pacan on the cereal's vitamin content, and an occasional wax-blurred cartoon. Not so his kid brother and sister. They, along with most of the other fellers and girls in the country, come down to breakfast every morning to face cereal boxes covered with some 150 square inches of fun-packed thrills...
...began to change their feeding habits. With a good deal of difficulty, says Moncrieff, they learned to digest wool, have not yet completely adapted themselves to their unnatural diet. Researchers have proved that moth larvae grow faster when fed on fish meal or casein, and that unless they get vitamin B they never reach maturity. Vitamin B, plentiful in dirty clothes, is what a moth is after when he chews up a gravy spot...
...humans, the most baffling virus is that of poliomyelitis. It has been noted for years that the disease seems to attack better-nourished children. In mice experiments, if the animals' diet was deficient in thiamin (vitamin B1), the incubation period was prolonged, and the paralysis and mortality rates were cut down. It was also found that if thiamin was added to the diet of infected animals, the polio often developed quickly into paralysis. But the picture was not all dark. In many cases, vitamins proved to be a shield against disease. One dramatic example: pigeons deprived of vitamin...