"NEW" VITAMINS
When a new vitamin is said to have been discovered, the news should be taken with a grain of salt, says the "New York Times." Maybe the curative results reported were not due to a new vitamin, but to larger quantities of an old familiar one. This has been the case in a number of instances, Professor George R. Cowgill, of Yale University School of Medicine pointed out at a meeting of the Yale Chapter of Sigma XI.
Vitamin B, the anti-beriberi vitamin found in whole grains, is a case in point. For a time scientists kept discovering apparently new vitamins in the natural source until seven or more vitamins B were reported. At least three of these ,yitamins, 83, 84, and 85, have turned out to be, in Dr. Cowgill's words, "a liberal supply of vitamin B_"
Besides the vitamins there are other substances just as necessary for normal growth and development. These include the essential fatty acids and the ammo acids. If these had not happened to be discovered first, in already known food classes (fats and proteins), Dr. Cowgill suggested, they might also have been called vitamins.
Dr. Cowgill stressed the important difference for good health between a barely sufficient supply of vitamuas and an optimaL amounts
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 77, 28 September 1938, Page 4
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212"NEW" VITAMINS Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 77, 28 September 1938, Page 4
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