1926 GOLDBERGER, Joseph (1874 – 1929); ET AL
A further study of butter, fresh beef, and yeast as pellagra preventives, with consideration of the relation of factor P-P of pellagra (and black tongue of dogs) to vitamin B.
Anti-pellagra vitamin (B2, riboflavine). With G. A. Wheeler, R. D. Lillie, and L. M. Rogers.
GMN 1057 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/656
1926 ROSENHEIM, Sigmund Otto (1871 – 1955); WEBSTER, Thomas Arthur
The anti-rachitic properties of irradiated sterols.
Proof that the irradiation of ergosterol formed vitamin D.
GMN 1058.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/669
1926 JANSEN, Barned Coenraad Petrus (1884 – 1962); DONATH, Willem Frederik (1889 – 1957)
Antineuritische Vitamine.
Isolation of vitamin B1 (aneurine, thiamine), lack of which is a cause of beri-beri.
GMN 1058 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4562
1926 GOLDBERGER, Joseph (1874 – 1929); WHEELER, George Alexander (1885 – 1981)
A further study of butter, fresh beef, and yeast as pellagra preventatives, with consideration of the relation of factor P-P of pellagra (and black tongue of dogs) to vitamin B.
Anti-pellagra vitamin. With G. A. Wheeler, R. D. Lillie, and L. M. Rogers.
GMN 3758 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4606
1926 BUER, M. C.
Health, wealth and population in the early days of the industrial revolution.
Chapters on water supply, 18th physicians and pioneers of public health, the hospital and dispensary movement, general hygiene and midwifery, rickets and scurvy, antiseptics, smallpox, anti-typhus campaign, malaria, etc.
GMN 10467 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12660
1927 STEPP, Wilhelm Otto (1882 – 1963); GYÖRGY, Paul (1893 – 1976)
Avitaminosen und verwandte Krankheitszustände. Edited by W. Stepp and P. György.
Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.
GMN 3706 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4453
1927 FIXSEN, Margaret Averil Boas (1899 – )
The effect of desiccation upon the nutritive properties of egg-white.
Demonstration of the effect of deprivation of biotin.
GMN 3724 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4495
1929 HESS, Alfred Fabian (1875 – 1933)
Rickets, including osteomalacia and tetany.
Hess made numerous clinical observations on rickets and scurvy and discovered that antirachitic properties could be imparted to certain oils and to food by exposing them to ultra-violet rays. His book includes an impo…
GMN 3735 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4524
1929 –1930 MAXWELL, John Preston (1871 – 1961)
Further studies in osteomalacia.
Maxwell showed osteomalacia to be due to lack of vitamin D.
GMN 4396 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/5991
1930 MILKMAN, Louis Arthur (1895 – 1951)
Pseudofractures (hunger osteopathy, late rickets, osteomalacia): report of a case.
“Milkman’s syndrome”.
GMN 4398 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/6005
1933 PARSONS, Sir Leonard Gregory (1879 – 1950)
Scurvy treated with ascorbic acid.
First case of infantile scurvy cured by the administration of ascorbic acid.
GMN 3725 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4497
1934 WENCKEBACH, Karel Frederik (1864 – 1940)
Das Beriberi-Herz.
Wenckebach wrote a classic account of the heart in beriberi.
GMN 3747 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4565
1935 WILLIAMS, Cicely Delphine (1893 – 1992)
Kwashiorkor. A nutritional disease of children associated with a maize diet.
First accurate description. “Kwashiorkor” was the local name in Ghana for a nutritional disease of children, associated with a maize diet. The first modern account was probably that of L. Normet in Bull. Soc. Path. ex…
GMN 3759 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4609
1936 WILLIAMS, Robert Runnels (1886 – 1965); CLINE, Joseph Kalman (1908 – )
Synthesis of vitamin B1.
Synthesis of aneurine.
GMN 1073 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/756
1937 KOEHN, Carl James (1910 – 1989); ELVEHJEM, Conrad Arnold (1901 – 1962)
Further studies on the concentration of the antipellagra factor.
Chicken pellagra factor.
GMN 1076 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/773
1938 ELVEHJEM, Conrad Arnold (1901 – 1962); ET AL
The isolation and identification of the anti-black tongue factor.
Isolation of nicotinic acid, the pellagra-preventing factor (Vitamin B3). With R. J. Madden, F. N. Strong, and D. W. Woolley.
GMN 1077 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/779
1938 SEBRELL, William Henry Jr. (1901 – 1992); BUTLER, Roy Edwin (1902 – 1974)
Riboflavin deficiency in man; a preliminary note.
Ariboflavinosis
GMN 3707 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4455
1939 HARRIS, Leslie Julius (1898 – 1973); WANG, Y. L.
Methods for assessing the level of nutrition of the human subject: estimation of vitamin B1 in urine by the thiochrome test.
Wang’s test for avitaminosis.
GMN 3708 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4457
1940 HOGAN, Albert Garland (1884 – 1961); PARROTT, Ernest Milford (1903 – 1994)
Anemia in chicks caused by a vitamin deficiency.
Isolation of vitamin Bc (folic acid, pteroylglutamic acid). Preliminary communication in J. biol. Chem., 1939, 128, xlvi-xlvii.
GMN 1086 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/841
1946 BICKNELL, Franklin (1906 – 1964); PRESCOTT, Frederick (1904 – )
The vitamins in medicine.
4th edition, 2 vols, 1980.
GMN 3709 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4460
1946 APFELBAUM, Emil (1895 – 1946)
Choroba glodowa: Badania kliniczne nad glodem wykonane w getcie warszawskim z roku 1942.
A series of articles by Jewish physicians working in the Bersohn and Bauman Jewish Children's Hospital and "Czyste" Hospital in the Warsaw ghetto, who conducted independent research between November 1941 and August 19…
GMN 7236 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9405
1948 SMITH, Ernest Lester (1904 – 1992)
Presence of cobalt in the anti-pernicious anaemia factor.
Independently of Rickes et al., Lester Smith isolated vitamin B12 in Britain. See also Nature (Lond.), 1948, 161, 638.
GMN 1092 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/875
1986 CARPENTER, Kenneth John (1923 – 2016)
The history of scurvy and vitamin C.
GMN 3726 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4499
2000 CARPENTER, Kenneth John (1923 – 2016)
Beriberi, white rice, and vitamin B: A disease, a cause, and a cure.
GMN 12208 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14418
2003 GOLDBERGER, Joseph (1874 – 1929); KRAUT, Alan M. (1946 – )
Goldberger's war: The life and work of a public health crusader.
GMN 8218 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10394
