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...Doisy and Vitamin K. Drs. Henrik Dam and Edward Adelbert Doisy share the 1943 medicine prize ($29,500.07) for discovery and synthesis, respectively, of vitamin K, the "blood-coagulation vitamin." This is the fifth time vitamin research has won a Nobel prize...
...tiny hemorrhages under their skins. Their blood, he found, contained very little prothrombin, a blood element necessary for clotting. He cured them by feeding them pigs' liver, alfalfa, cabbage, spinach, etc. In 1935 he announced that he had isolated the curative substance from the foods, called it vitamin K after his scientific word for it-Koagulationsvitamine...
...Doisy, tall, meticulous, 50-year-old head of the Biochemistry Department at St. Louis University, was already famous when he began working on vitamin K: he had isolated theelin, a female sex hormone in 1929, and a similar hormone in 1936 (TIME, Aug. 24, 1936). In 1939 he announced that he had analyzed two substances giving the same activity as vitamin K, and recently he patented a method of synthesizing.the vitamin. Synthetic vitamin K, called Menadione (fluid injections or tablets), has saved many lives...
...injections and pills are not needed by healthy people. Extra vitamin K is needed when disease cuts off bile flow and impairs intestinal absorption. It is also given to women a few days before childbirth and to newborn babies...
Solution. In Los Angeles, Alvin Meyers used up his last coupons for ten gallons of gas, drove nowhere with it because his four-year-old son filled up the rest of the tank with water and his father's bottle of vitamin pills...