The vitamin A story lifting the shadow of death
This book shows how vitamin A deficiency before the vitamin was known to scientists affected millions of people throughout history. It is a story of sailors and soldiers, penniless mothers, orphaned infants, and young children left susceptible to blindness and fatal infections. We also glimpse the f...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Basel ; New York :
Karger
c2012.
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| Colección: | World review of nutrition and dietetics,
v. 104 World Review of Nutrition and Dietetics |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009433345106719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents
- Dedication
- Preface
- Glossary
- Chapter 1: Vitamin A Deficiency in Nineteenth Century Naval Medicine
- Night Blindness at Sea
- Night Blindness Linked to Other Diseases of Malnutrition
- Diagnosis and the Search for a Cause
- Something Missing from the Food
- Chapter 2: Paris in the Time of Françoise Magendie
- Different but Hardly Better
- Bad Gets Worse
- First Steps in the Science of Public Health
- D'Arcet's Gelatin for the Needy and the Dietary Nitrogen Studies of Magendie
- Chapter 3: Deprivation Provides a Laboratory
- A Defect in Alimentation
- Gains in Nutrition, Then a Disastrous Reversal
- Chapter 4: Free but Not Equal
- Race and Rank: Differences in Diet and Susceptibility
- Uneven Nutrition outside the Union Army
- Chapter 5: The Long, Rocky Road to Understanding Vitamins
- Moving Beyond Old Assumptions and Around New Certainties
- Connecting the "Accessory Factors" and the Vitamin Deficiency Diseases
- Finding an Elusive Panacea in Milk
- Obstructions, Chicanery, and Perseverance
- Lafayette Mendel's Far-Flung Progeny and His Legacy
- Chapter 6: Milk, Butter, and Early Steps in Human Trials
- The High Health Cost of a Booming Dairy Industry
- Milk Studies in Britain: Experiments in Experimentation
- Interference from Within and Without
- Lessons Learned
- Chapter 7: Rise of the "Anti-Infective Vitamin"
- Abating Childbed Fever: A Path with Forks and Obstacles
- A Gentle Warrior Confronts a Children's Predator
- A Vitamin's Short Stay at the Limelight
- Chapter 8: Vitamin A Deficiency in Europe's Former Colonies
- Dutch Initiative versus the Free Market
- Health in the Developing World Becomes a Multinational Concern
- Chapter 9: Saving the Children: Rescue Missions against Strong Undertow
- Ideals for a New Era
- The Best Laid Plans...
- Getting It Right and on the International Agenda
- External Obstructions
- Much Accomplished, More to Do
- More Vegetables and Fruit: Nice Idea, but...
- Appendix: Night Blindness Among Black Troops and White Troops in the US Civil War
- Bibliography
- Manuscript Sources
- Published Sources
- Subject Index
- Cover.
