1936 EVANS, Herbert McLean (1882 – 1971); EMERSON, Oliver H.; EMERSON, Gladys Luwina Anderson (1903 – 1984)
The isolation from wheat-germ oil of an alcohol, α-tocopherol, having the properties of vitamin E.
Isolation of vitamin E, named by Herbert M. Evans.
GMN 1071 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/737
1936 KÖGL, Fritz (1897 – 1954); TÖNNIS, Benno
Über das Bios-Problem. Darstellung von krystallisiertem Biotin aus Eigelb.
Isolation of biotin (vitamin H).
GMN 1071.1 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/746
1936 SZENT-GYÖRGYI, Albert (1893 – 1987); RUSZNYAK, Stephan (1886 – 1974)
Vitamin P: Flavonols as vitamins.
Discovery of vitamin P (“citrin”).
GMN 1072 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/751
1936 WILLIAMS, Robert Runnels (1886 – 1965); CLINE, Joseph Kalman (1908 – )
Synthesis of vitamin B1.
Synthesis of aneurine.
GMN 1073 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/756
1936 FLEXNER, Abraham (1866 – 1959); HESS, Alfred Fabian (1875 – 1933)
Collected writings. With a biographical memoir by Abraham Flexner. 2 vols.
GMN 13044 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15295
1937 HOLMES, Harry Nicholls (1879 – 1958); CORBET, Ruth E.
A crystalline vitamin A concentration.
GMN 1074 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/761
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
1937 TODD, Alexander Robertus Baron Todd (1909 – 1997); ET AL
Studies on vitamin E. The isolation of β-tocopherol from wheat germ oil.
With F. Bergel and T. S. Work.
GMN 1075 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1118
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 HARRIS, Leslie Julius (1898 – 1973)
Vitamins and vitamin deficiencies. Vol. 1.
GMN 1078 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/804
1938 KARRER, Paul (1889 – 1971); ET AL
α-Tocopherol.
P. Karrer, H. Fritzsche, B. H. Ringier, and H. Salomon synthesized vitamin E (α-tocopherol).
GMN 1079 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/807
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 DAM, Carl Pieter Henrik (1895 – 1976); ET AL
Isolierung des Vitamins K in hochgereinigter Form.
Isolation of vitamin K1 from alfalfa. It was isolated independently by R. W. McKee and his co-workers, J. Amer. chem. Soc., 1939, 61, 1295.
GMN 1080 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/809
1939 BINKLEY, Stephen Bennett (1910 – 1987); DOISY, Edward Adelbert (1883 – 1986); MACCORQUODALE, Donald William (1898 – 1986); THAYER, Sidney A.
The isolation of vitamin K1.
Order of authorship in the original publication: Binkley, MacCorquodale, Thayer, Doisy. In 1943 Doisy received half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his discovery of the chemical nature of vitamin K."…
GMN 1081 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/812
1939 FIESER, Louis Frederick (1899 – 1977)
Synthesis of vitamin K1.
GMN 1083 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/828
1939 DRUMMOND, Sir Jack Cecil (1891 – 1952); WILBRAHAM, Anne
The Englishman’s food. A history of five centuries of English diet.
Revised edition, 1958.
GMN 1092.51 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1119
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
1939 PRICE, Weston Andrew Valleau (1870 – 1948)
Nutrition and physical degeneration: A comparison of primitive and modern diets and their effects.
"The 1939 foreword to the book, written by physical anthropologist Earnest A. Hooton, lauded Price's work for confirming previous research that dental caries were less prevalent in "savages" and attempting to establis…
GMN 10688 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12881
1940 BINKLEY, Stephen Bennett (1910 – 1987); DOISY, Edward Adelbert (1883 – 1986); THAYER, Sidney A.
The constitution of vitamin K2.
Structural formula of vitamin K2.
GMN 1082 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/823
1940 VIGNEAUD, Vincent du (1901 – 1978); ET AL
A further note on the identity of vitamin H with biotin.
Isolation of β-biotin (formerly known as vitamin H). With D. B. Melville, P. György, and C. S. Rose.
GMN 1085 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/836
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
1941 ANSBACHER, Stefan (1905 – )
p-Aminobenzoic acid, a vitamin.
Recognition of β-amenobenzoic acid as a member of the vitamin-B complex.
GMN 1084 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/831
1942 WAWRA, Cecil Z. (1915 – 1994); WEBB, John Leyden (1914 – 1966)
The isolation of a new oxidation-reduction enzyme from lemon peel (vitamin P).
Isolation of vitamin P (hespendin chalcone).
GMN 1087 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/849
1943 HARRIS, Stanton Avery (1902 – ); ET AL
Synthetic biotin.
Synthesis of biotin. With D. E. Wolf, R. Mozingo, and K. Folkers.
GMN 1088 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/855
1943 KÖGL, Fritz (1897 – 1954); HAM, E. J. Ten
Zur Kenntnis des β-Biotins. 34. Mitteilung über pflanzliche Wachstumstoffe.
Isolation of α-biotin.
GMN 1089 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/862
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
1947 SHORB, Mary Shaw (1907 – 1990)
Unidentified growth factors for Lactobacillus lactis in refined liver extract.
Mary Shorb provided a method of biological assay of liver extracts that made possible the isolation of vitamin B12.
GMN 1090 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/869
1948 RICKES, Edward Lawrence (1912 – ); ET AL
Crystalline vitamin B12.
With N. G. Brink, F. R. Koniuszy, T. R. Wood, and K. Folkers.
GMN 1091 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/872
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
1950 KEYS, Ancel Benjamin (1904 – 2004); BROZEK, Josef (1913 – 2004); HENSCHEL, Austin; MICKELSEN, Olaf (1912 – 1999); TAYLOR, Henry Longsteet
The biology of human starvation. 2 vols.
"To gain insight into the physiology of starvation, in 1944 [Ancel] Keys carried out a starvation study with 36 conscientious objectors as test subjects in the Minnesota Starvation Experiment. At the time, conscientio…
GMN 8779 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10957
1955 HODGKIN, Dorothy Crowfoot (1910 – 1994)
The crystal structure of the hexacarboxylic acid derived from B12 and the molecular structure of the vitamin.
The final structure of vitamin B12. With J. Pickworth, J.H. Robertson, K.N. Trueblood, R.J. Prosen, J. G. White. In 1964 Hodgkin was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for her determinations by X-ray techniques of …
GMN 6928 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9093
1955 GOFMAN, John William (1918 – 2007); LINDGREN, Frank T. (1924 – 2007); ET AL
The serum lipoprotein transport system in health, metabolic disorders, atherosclerosis and coronary artery disease.
Gofman, a nuclear and physical chemist as well as a physician, has been called the "father of clinical lipidology." He discovered and described the major classes of plasma lipoproteins: intermediate-density lipoprotei…
GMN 7757 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9929
1957 MCCOLLUM, Elmer Verner (1879 – 1967)
A history of nutrition.
GMN 1092.52 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/893
1965 BÖTTCHER, Helmuth Maximillian (1895 – 1979)
Das Vitaminbuch. Die Geschichte der Vitaminforschung.
GMN 1092.53 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/903
1972 HIPPOCRATES, [Ἱπποκράτης; Hippocrates of Kos] (-460 – -370); JOLY, Robert (1922 – 2011)
Hippocrate, Oeuvres complètes, Tome VI, 2e partie: Du régime des maladies aiguës, Appendice, De l'aliment, De l'usage des liquides. Texte établi et traduit par Robert Joly.
Greek text with facing French translation and commentary of a group of treatises of different periods devoted to nutrition: On regimen in acute diseases (in two versions, with the second traditionally identified as th…
GMN 10684 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12877
1973 ACKERKNECHT, Erwin Heinz (1906 – 1988)
Therapeutics from the primitives to the 20th century, with an appendix: history of dietetics.
Includes a valuable bibliography. First published in German, Stuttgart, 1970.
GMN 2068.16 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/2458
1977 DARBY, William Jefferson (1913 – 2001); GHALIOUNGUI, Paul (Ghalioungi) (1908 – 1987); GRIVETTI, Louis Evan (1938 – )
Food: The gift of Osiris. 2 vols.
Extensively illustrated history of nutrition in ancient Egypt.
GMN 1092.54 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/909
1986 CARPENTER, Kenneth John (1923 – 2016)
The history of scurvy and vitamin C.
GMN 3726 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4499
1986 STECKEL, Richard H. (1944 – )
A peculiar population: The nutrition, health, and mortality of American slaves from childhood to maturity.
Digital facsimile from Jstor and at this link.
GMN 7957 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10132
1989 TANNAHILL, Reay (1929 – 2007)
Food in history. Revised and updated edition
Digital version available at this link.
GMN 7424 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9596
1989 YOUNG, James Harvey (1915 – 2006)
Pure food: Securing the Federal Food and Drugs Act of 1906.
GMN 12414 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14644
1990 ORTIZ DE MONTELLANO, Bernard R.
Aztec medicine, health, and nutrition.
GMN 7513 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9685
1992 DARBY, William Jefferson (1913 – 2001); JUKES, Thomas Hughes (1906 – 1999)
Founders of nutrition science. Biographical articles from the Journal of Nutrition, volumes 5-120, 1932-1990. Edited by William J. Darby and Thomas H. Jukes. 2 vols.
GMN 7195 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9362
1992 ROLAND, Charles Gordon (1933 – 2009)
Courage under siege: Starvation, disease, and death in the Warsaw Ghetto.
GMN 11054 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13250
1992 FURST, Lillian R. (1931 – 2009); GRAHAM, Peter W.
Disorderly eaters: Texts in self-empowerment. Edited by Lillian R. Furst and Peter W. Graham.
Explores the various manifestations of eating disorders in literature, including cannibalism, the magic attributes of food, religiously motivated fasting, and children's eating problems, from the classical period to T…
GMN 11855 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14059
1994 CARPENTER, Kenneth John (1923 – 2016)
Protein and energy: A study of changing ideas in nutrition.
GMN 12207 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14417
1995 DELLUC, Brigitte (1936 – ); DELLUC, Gilles (1934 – )
La nutrition préhistorique.
GMN 9929 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12117
1997 ORIBASIUS (ὈΡΕΙΒΆΣΙΟΣ), [Oreibasius] (320 – 403); GRANT, Mark David (1960 – )
Dieting for an emperor: A translation of books 1 and 4 of Oribasius' Medical Compilations with an introduction and commentary by Mark Grant.
GMN 9369 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11552
1998 BROTHWELL, Donald Reginald (1933 – 2016)
Food in antiquity: A survey of the diet of early peoples
Originally published in 1969.
GMN 8032 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10208
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