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...milk exposed to its irradiation as Wisconsin's Professor Harry Steenbock ; has demonstrated. In operation 3,000 quarts of milk flow in a thin sheet down the inner walls of the cylinder, acquiring Vitamin D in about the same strength as occurs naturally in good cod liver oil. National Carbon Co. of Cleveland and Creamery Package Co. of Chicago worked with the Research Foundation to develop the irradiator. The Foundation is to commercialize it, license its use to dairies, just as it licenses Professor Steenbock's irradiation methods to drug and food manufacturers. The importance of Vitamin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Vitaminizer & Teeth | 12/19/1932 | See Source »

Government agents conferred a doctorate upon the Salmon last week. Once upon a time the only fish doctor was Dr. Cod Fish whose liver oil was mysteriously, disgustfully good for puny children. Then someone discovered that there was a Vitamin D which made bones straight & sturdy, prevented the bone-softening disease called rickets. Someone else discovered that cod liver oil was good for children because it contained quantities of Vitamin D. That gave joy to Parke, Davis & Co. of Detroit, Scott & Bowne of Bloomfield, N. J., E. L. Patch Co., of Boston, E. R. Squibb & Sons of Manhattan, Mead Johnson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Drs. Cod, Halibut & Salmon | 12/12/1932 | See Source »

Competition among the cod liver oil sellers was not nearly so bad before what happened last year when Dr. Halibut Fish was certified as an accumulator of concentrated Vitamin A in his liver. His Vitamin D content was less significant. Abbott Laboratories of Chicago and Parke, Davis fortified A-rich halibut liver oil with viosterol (a concentrated Vitamin D), called the product haliver (portmanteau for halibut liver) oil with viosterol, and exploited the trade name Haliver so vigorously, that Mead Johnson last month took six consecutive pages of advertising in one journal to remind doctors, in large sultry yellow, type...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Drs. Cod, Halibut & Salmon | 12/12/1932 | See Source »

...Children's Bureau, Dr. Elmer Martin Nelson of the Department of Agriculture and Dr. Chester Deebell Tolle of the Bureau of Fisheries. Salmon oil (probably to be called Saliver, unless the connotation of saliva forbids) contains, they said, twice the Vitamin D potency of cod liver oil. Happy news to the salmon industry is that 1,000,000 gal. of the oil a year can be salvaged from canning wastes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Drs. Cod, Halibut & Salmon | 12/12/1932 | See Source »

...Frieda S. Robscheit-Robbins reported that experiments on dogs of the University of Rochester had shown that plain liver is far more valuable as a builder of red corpuscles than milk, green vegetables or fruit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Food for Rich & Poor | 11/21/1932 | See Source »

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