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...past ten years, Dr. Garnett Cheney of Stanford University's School of Medicine has been studying an anti-ulcer factor he tentatively calls vitamin U (TIME, Jan. 1, 1945). Tests on patients have been encouraging; their ulcers got better when Dr. Cheney fed them on foods containing vitamin U, but he could not prove that U did the trick...
Cabbage, Dr. Cheney found, contained a lot of vitamin U, and seemed to keep guinea pigs from getting ulcers. In California Medicine, he reported results of a five-month test on 13 patients. He gave them a quart of cabbage juice a day, squeezed out by a juice presser from fresh raw cabbage. They also got a fairly normal diet. They were given no regular doses of alkalis, and were allowed to smoke all they wanted. All their food was cooked; vitamin U is destroyed by cooking, and Cheney wanted his patients to get it only in the carefully measured...
Vitamin U is also found in celery, unpasteurized milk, fresh greens, raw egg yolks, cereal grasses, certain animal and vegetable fats. Dr. Cheney says cautiously that his experiment is not final proof that vitamin U heals ulcers, but "indicates it may be the case...
Miss Lydon's parent program consists of continual conferences with the mothers "and especially with fathers who need to catch up on the latest child-raising techniques," she comments. There are occasional lectures, such as the one to be given on January 20 by Cheney Jones, leader of the Home for Little Wanderers in Philadelphia...
...Goddard Cheney...