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Word: vitarumen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1930
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...milk after Vitamin B had been deleted from her diet. Puzzled, experimenters cut a hole in Jessie's side, inserted a rubber tube, periodically examined the contents of her stomach. Ninety per cent of the bacteria in rumen were discovered to be of a new kind, flavobacterium vitarumen. Bacteriologist Ralph Porter Tittsler began investigating the bacteria in Jessie's stomach to discover what influence salt and other chemicals had upon the digestive processes of cows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Jessie's Window | 3/10/1930 | See Source »

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