Vitamin discoveries and disasters
Subtitle: history, science, and controversies / Frances Rachel Frankenburg.
Series: Praeger series on contemporary health and living
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Westport, CT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780313354755
Subjects: Vitamins -- History; Vitamins in human nutrition -- History; Avitaminosis -- History; Vitamins -- history; Avitaminosis -- history; Research -- history; Research Personnel -- Biography
Genres: Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Rats that don't grow and have sore eyes : vitamin A, the anti-night-blindness vitamin, retinol; title: Soldiers in pain and staggering chickens : vitamin B1, the anti-beriberi vitamin, thiamine; title: Dermatitis, diarrhea, dementia, death : vitamin B3, the anti-pellagra vitamin, niacin; title: Deadly anemia, sludge, and the Nobel prize for a woman : vitamins B9 and B12, the two anti-anemia vitamins, folate and cobalamin; title: Sailors, scurvy, the guinea pig, and the Nobel prize : vitamin C, the anti-scurvy vitamin, ascorbic acid; title: Soft bones, lack of light, and the "sunshine hormone" : vitamin D, the anti-rickets vitamin, calcitriol; title: Can you have too much of a good thing? : toxicity from vitamins.