| Description |
xiii, 145 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Praeger series on contemporary health and living |
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Praeger series on contemporary health and living.
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| Contents |
Rats that don't grow and have sore eyes : vitamin A (retinol), the anti-night blindness vitamin -- Soldiers in pain and staggering chickens : vitamin B1 (thiamine), the anti-beriberi vitamin -- Dermatitis, diarrhea, dementia, death : vitamin B3 (niacin), the anti-pellagra vitamin -- Deadly anemia, sludge, and the Nobel prize for a woman : vitamins B9 (folate) and B12 (cobalamin), the two anti-anemia vitamins -- Sailors, scurvy, the guinea pig, and the Nobel prize : vitamin C (ascorbic acid), the anti-scurvy vitamin -- Soft bones, lack of light, and the "sunshine hormone" : vitamin D (calcitriol), the anti-rickets vitamin -- Can you have too much of a good thing? : toxicity from vitamins -- Conclusion : victories, but lingering concerns |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Vitamins -- History.
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Vitamins in human nutrition -- History.
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Avitaminosis -- History.
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Vitamins -- history.
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Avitaminosis -- history.
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Research -- history.
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Research Personnel.
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| Genre/Form |
Biography.
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Biographies.
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| LC no. |
2009011021 |
| ISBN |
9780313354755 (hard copy : alk. paper) |
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0313354758 (hard copy : alk. paper) |
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