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No. 2VITAMINES AND BABIES By WALTER H. EDDY, PH.D. Associate Professor of Physiological Chemistry, Teachers College Since the discovery of the food factors which Casimir Funk named vitamines in 1911, there has been a progressive interest in these substances and in some cases a hysterical exaggeration of their importance that is hardly justified by the evidence available. The true importance of these substances and their relation to matters of diet are in fact most imperfectly established in the minds of their closest students to-day and much remains to be done before anyone can speak dogmatically about any phase of the subject. Before discussing the particular topic selected for this article let us consider briefly some of the few facts that have been established in regard to them. Historically, their study dates from Funk schristening in 1911 when the name he devised was applied to a substance found in rice polishings and in yeast which cured a peculiar disease known as polyneuritis or beri-beri. In the Far East, where rice forms so important a staple of diet, medical men were puzzled by the widespread development of this disease. Our own army workers in the Philippines had for a number of years, preceding 1911, given much study to this malady. Japanese workers had also investigated the subject rather minutely and, had logic decreed the course of events, the announcement of the curative substance should have come from these eastern workers. But, as often happens, the crucial experiment was developed at a point far removed from the seat of the major work in the subject.
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