TY  - BOOK
AU  - Frankenburg,Frances Rachel
TI  - Vitamin discoveries and disasters: history, science, and controversies 
T2  - Praeger series on contemporary health and living
SN  - 9780313354755 (hard copy : alk. paper)
AV  - QP771 .F73 2009
U1  - 612.3/99 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Santa Barbara, Calif.
PB  - Praeger/ABC-CLIO
KW  - Vitamins
KW  - History
KW  - Vitamins in human nutrition
KW  - Avitaminosis
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [133]-136) and index; 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
ER  -