Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-13
Research
Bares More
Ntamin Facts
News Made in Medical
4 World byVifaI Subject
BY LOGAN CLENDENING, MI

TIVE vitamins certainly justify
their name in making news
in the medical world. They are
a very vital subject.
Research is going on all the
time. Today I picked up an
article placed in my files In
1889 and found it was COM
pletely out OF date.
This is a good thing, too. We
need to know a lot more than
we do about the vitamins, both
TO help ourselves to live scien-
tifically and TO save ourselves
from unwarranted enthusiasts.
In reading about the vitamins
or listening to your friends re-
cite their experiences with them,
there is one distinction or stand
ard of judgment you can set
up that l think will help.
This is 10 differentiate be-
tween the use of the vitamins
as having replacement action or
PHARMACEUTICAL action.
In other words. are they being
used as foods or drugs?
When they were first discov-
cred, il was considered that
their usefulness was confined to
instances when people on made
quate diets developed conditions
such as scuffy skin, sore tongue,
ricketts,, scurvy and neuritis.
which were cured by replacing
the missing vitamins in the diet.
THEN ii was found that GER
l. tain of these vitamins had
pharmacologic actions.
Thus Vitamin B, if deficient
in the diet, brings on neuritis.
But even when the diet is ade-
quate in Vitamin B, large doses
Of il relieve neuritis.
Just as some endocrine hor-
mones-adrenalin and pituitrin
are used regularly in the body
economy, but when used in large
dosage an entirely exaggerated
and different action Is had.
So when you hear about the
vitamins, ask yourself whether
they are being used as replace
ments or drugs.
The latest vitamin seems to be
the gray hair preventive vitamin
para -anino-benzoic acid, part
OF the Vitamin B complex.
II is found in yeast. liver and
molasses. II has been tried on
patients between the ages of 21
and 81 and the gray hair re-
turned TO its original shade in
about two months.
This sounds too good 10 be
true. and / predict disappoint-
ment from its use.
/ saw DR.. Hubert Evans gray
rats who got that way from re-
moving the vitamin from their
diet. and reported them here two
years ago.
The conditions are not analo-
gous TO CRAVING hair in humans.
MORE news comes from Mr..
NA Bruce Bliven, who says that
Hitler is Withholding thiamine
chloride (Vitamin b from in
habitants of conquered countries
because it Is the morale vita
min"
Mr.. Bliven and his science slay
me. When / see an article by
him on science. l prepare for a
good laugh.
See how mixed the thinking
on the morale vitarnin is?
Vitamin B is necessary TO
nerVes--but just TO ordinary
nerves that carry impulses of
sensation and motion.
But, according 10 this new
logic. morale" is nerve" when
your morale is gone your nerves
are gone.
So Nitaf4if4 r is the morale
vitamin. But that kind of nerve.
is in your personality; il is not
the same as nerve fibers.
QUESTIONS, ANSWERS
s. J. C.-Do you think bathing
the chest every morning the year
round with cold water is good
for chronic bronchitis? Is there
any other treatment for chronic
bronchitis? l take cold very
easily.