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...market than in the drugstore." They do not add artificial vitamins to food, nor are Nazi soldiers fed vitamin pills. German doctors learned this lesson from an experiment in the Swiss Army, where soldiers were fed an artificial vitamin preparation (vitamins C and B. mineral salts, iron, dried yeast and a gelatinous sugar). Results: "Poor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Feeding the Reichswehr | 7/28/1941 | See Source »

German nutritionists have found, says Dr. Gerson, that doses of artificial vitamins and minerals may act against each other. Example: large doses of vitamin A may drain the body's reserves of C, produce scurvy. The German soldiers get their vitamins in butter, rye bread, yeast extract, soybeans, vegetables, milk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Feeding the Reichswehr | 7/28/1941 | See Source »

...Fortnight ago a fungus was insured by Lloyds of London for $1,000,000. Policyholder is the Falstaff Brewing Corp. of St. Louis, which thus treasures its unique, 50-year-old brewer's yeast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Vegetable Vampires | 3/31/1941 | See Source »

Scientists Earl Ralph Norris and James Hauschildt, of the University of Washington, announced discovery of a new vitamin, found in yeast and liver, that prevents baldness. They dubbed it "inositol." The vitamin, said bald Dr. Norris worked beautifully on mice. But it killed them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: New Wonder Drug | 2/24/1941 | See Source »

Lately Sister Mary Jordan Carroll, Professor Fardon and others at the Institutum have been investigating the respiration of cells. From yeast and animal tissue cells they were able to extract an oxidizing agent, which they call biodin, and which stimulates oxygen consumption. After precipitation as a white powder, biodin retains its powers, can be sent back to work to speed up the life fires of injured tissues. Last week, at the American Association for the Advancement of Science convention in Philadelphia, Sister Mary Jordan Carroll demonstrated biodin, with microscope and test tube. Naturally she attracted a good deal of attention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Advancement in Philadelphia | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

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