Fangland

Literature & Fiction

John Marks

Contemporary

Vintage Books USA

From Vision to Action

Columbia University Press

Throughout the history of mankind from primitive man to the present time, vitamin ddiciencies have been a major cause of death and disease. Pellagra, scurvy and beri-beri have decimated armies, ships' crews and even nations (Figure I). As late as 1925 the disease 'pernicious' anaemia caused by the ab­ sence of vitamin Bl2 within a person's body really lived up to its name. Although there were isolated instances of recognition of dietary deficien­ cies even a thousand years ago, the importance of dietary factors in the gene­ sis of these diseases was more widely recognized from the eighteenth century onwards and it was not until this century that the chemical structure of these factors was determined and the substances themselves synthesized. As the science of biochemistry has developed it has been found that the clinical manifestations of vitamin deficiency follow derangement of multiple metabolic functions. The majority of the vitamins in fact form specific co-en­ zymes in various chemical processes but at least one is converted within the body into a hormone. The commercial extraction and synthesis of the vitamins, which began mainly in the 1930S and 1940s, produced adequate quantities for a relief of vitamin detlciency diseases. The use of vitamins then became fashionable and dramatic cures were claimed for an ever increasing number of diseases.

A Guide to the Vitamins: Their Role in Health and Disease

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Springer London

This book has been designed, as its title implies, as a practical book for medical practitioners, although it should be of interest to medical students and nutritionists. It attempts to provide essential information about this important group of substances rather than be an all embracing monograph on the subject. For this reason biochemical and physiological considera tions have been kept to a minimum, and aspects of animal disorders and animal husbandry have not been considered. The material is often presented in a rather dogmatic fashion and, with rare exceptions, references are not included since this makes reading more difficult. The exceptions, where references are provided, are the therapeutic claims, and the series of recent studies which have indicated that vitamin deficiencies are still widely present among certain groups of the population of many industrially developed countries. To add to this reference list there is a reading list which has been selected to give key books, reviews with extensive bibliography and important articles over the past 10 years. From this reading list it is possible to trace most of the literature on the vitamins since they were first described over half a century ago.

The Vitamins: Their Role in Medical Practice

Medical Books

Springer

Birmingham on Old Postcards: v. 1

Reflections of a Bygone Age

Birmingham Inns and Pubs (Yesterday's Warwickshire)

Acocks Green on Old Picture Postcards (Yesterday's Warwickshire)

History

Europe

Battle of the Blues: The Oxford & Cambridge Boat Race From 1829

Mark Edwards

Hugh Matheson

Barbara Slater

Christopher J. Dodd

Duncan Clegg

Donald Legget

Mike Sweeney

Sports & Outdoors

P to M Limited

Shadows and Light: An anthology of stories by veterans and their partners, healing through post-traumatic stress

Biographies & Memoirs

Chris Hodder

Garry Daly

Marty Miles

Nikko Nicholas

Pekka Hirvonen

Terry Wolff

Trevor McLean

Leaders & Notable People

Busybird Publishing

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