The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-07-22
They Who Need Vitamin-B
 Complex


 The substance now identified as thiamin is pure vitamin B, which occurs only together with several other factors in the group called vitamin B-complex. White of egg is the only known food source of vitamin G Otherwise called vita min B-2 and now Identified as riboflavin) without vitamin B, and can find no food source of vita min B without the other factors of the B-compiex.
 Extreme deprivation of vitamin is the cause of beriberi (the 6in- ghalese term for extreme weak ness), a form of slowly developing | paresis of paralysis occurring in the orient and occasionally in this country.
 NAlthought beriberi Cpolyneuritis, multiple neutritis) is comparatively rare in this country, 1t is fair to estimate that many millions of peo- pie in North America who are reasonably well to do and not un- able to get proper food but just well enough informed to select 1t suffer from outspoken ailments and millions more fail to enjoy vite though they might enjoy 1t if they only knew the essentials of nutri- ton, due to insufficient daily in- take of vitamin B complex.
 It is contrary to my Hippocratic principles to suggest diseases or to display symptoms for readers to try on. But if can say anything her that may induce anybody to take a step in the direction of better health, then to hell with Hippocrates and the code of med- ical ethics or rather hail to both of them (Hippocrates bids his fol- lowers DO good if you can but do no harm" or words to that effect and the code of ethics contains no injunction against teaching the public how to keep welD. So just run your eye over some of the good effects an extra ration of vitamin B-complex may produce if eaten say, with breakfast every day: ! Improves appetite; normalizes !, perverted appetite, restores sense ,, of satisfaction with moderate or reasonable amount of food (es- I pecially carbohydrates) in persons ' who are overweight, flabby and ' who gorge on starches and sugars 3 habitually or periodically; corrects |. constipation, relieves colon re- ' rangement or so-called mucous CO., .. litis; improves carbohydrate meta bolism (vitamin B acts somewhat like insulin in this respecD; im- proves action of the heart when there is weakness of heart muscle; 2 venile hypochromic nutritional anemia; corrects faulty growth ridging and pitting of the nails prevents chronic fatigue; prevents ! or oyercomes ordinary neuritis; in- 2 creases rate of growth in children whose growth is retarded; corrects l' bradycardia (too slow heart beat in some cases; tends to diminish l craving for tobacco, alcohol, drugs; ] relieves vague numbness, tingling or pain in legs; improves circula- ton by increasing tone of involun- tary muscle of heart and arteries.
 Among the better sources oi vitamin B-complex, all Of the en- titles of the complex including the "anti-gray hair factor" weight factor, growth factor, nicotinic acid (perhaps specific precentive of pel- lagra) and others not yet chemical iv Identified are wheat germ, wheat bran, plain wheat, lettuce, carrots, tomatoes, spinach, prures, oranges. The most economic con- centrates are described in mono graph "The Years of Youth-lor copy send three-cent-stamped en- yelope bearing your address.
 QUESTIONS X ANSWERS | Canker Sores
 Please recommend something to relieve canker sores in the mouth. I have them frequently and suffer good deal. (Mrs. F. A. JD
 Angwer-Touch each sore daily with equal parts of tincture or iodine and glycerin on a wisp oi cotton wrapped around end ol toothpick. This smarts momentariiy but relieves the soreness or pain thereafter. Gently rinse mouth many times a day, especially before and after food, with an agreeably warm solution of heaping teaspoon full boric acid in pint of boiled wa. ! ter. Avoid brushing teeth. See that anw foci or infection in tonsils or teeth or gums are properly treated. Hold Everything
 Why don't you answer the pam o,estion | sent in three weeks ago?