LEADER 05454 am 22007573u 450 001 9910353343103321 005 20220726025436.0 010 $a3-318-02189-X 035 $a(CKB)2670000000333632 035 $a(EBL)3016524 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000729693 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12274671 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000729693 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10723712 035 $a(PQKB)11305036 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3016524 035 $a(ScCtBLL)9612f290-e5c9-483b-851a-a732c0e5122c 035 $a(OCoLC)813298782 035 $a(SZ-BaSKA)256966 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/30823 035 $a(PPN)179734164 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000333632 100 $a20120601d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe vitamin A story$b[electronic resource] $elifting the shadow of death /$fRichard D. Semba 210 $aBasel ;$aNew York $cKarger$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (224 p.) 225 1 $aWorld Review of Nutrition and Dietetics ;$vv.104 225 0$aWorld review of nutrition and dietetics,$x0084-2230 ;$vv. 104 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a3-318-02188-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContents -- 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. 330 $aThis book shows how vitamin A deficiency before the vitamin was known to scientists affected millions of people throughout history. It is a story of sailors and soldiers, penniless mothers, orphaned infants, and young children left susceptible to blindness and fatal infections. We also glimpse the fortunate ones who, with ample vitamin A-rich food, escaped this elusive stalker. Why were people going blind and dying? To unravel this puzzle, scientists around the world competed over the course of a century. Their persistent efforts led to the identification of vitamin A and its essential role in health. As a primary focus of today's international public health efforts, vitamin A has saved hundreds of thousands of lives. But, we discover, they could save many more were it not for obstacles erected by political and ideological zealots who lack a historical perspective of the problem. 410 0$aWorld Review of Nutrition and Dietetics 606 $aVitamin A deficiency$xHistory 606 $aVitamin A$xHistory 606 $aHistory, 19th Century 606 $aNight Blindness$xhistory 606 $aVitamin A$xtherapeutic use 610 0$aNutrition 610 0$aOphthalmology 610 0$aBiochemistry 610 0$aHistory of Medicine 610 0$aPediatrics 610 0$aPublic Health 610 0$aVitamins 615 0$aVitamin A deficiency$xHistory. 615 0$aVitamin A$xHistory. 615 0$aHistory, 19th Century. 615 0$aNight Blindness$xhistory 615 0$aVitamin A$xtherapeutic use 676 $a613.2/86 700 $aSemba$b Richard D$0904775 702 $aSemba$b Richard D$4oth 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910353343103321 996 $aThe vitamin A story$92023427 997 $aUNINA