Frankenburg, Frances Rachel. <br/><br/>
Vitamin discoveries and disasters :  history, science, and controversies / 
Frances Rachel Frankenburg. 
 - Santa Barbara, Calif. :  Praeger/ABC-CLIO,  c2009. 
 - xiii, 143 p. :  ill. ;  25 cm. 
 - Praeger series on contemporary health and living .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [133]-136) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780313354755 (hard copy : alk. paper) 0313354758 (hard copy : alk. paper) 9780313354762 (ebook) 0313354766 (ebook) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2009011021 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>101499549  DNLM 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Vitamins--History.<br/>Vitamins in human nutrition--History.<br/>Avitaminosis--History.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>QP771  / .F73 2009 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>612.3/99 
<br/><br/><label>National Library of Medicine Call No.: </label>QU 11.1  / F829v 2009