The Vitamines … Authorized Translation from Second German Edition by Harry E. Dubin
FUNK, Casimir
From Bull's Head Rare Books, ABAA, ILAB, Lebanon, NJ, U.S.A.
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From Bull's Head Rare Books, ABAA, ILAB, Lebanon, NJ, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since 17 December 2020
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8vo. Illustrated. 502 pp. Publisher's blue cloth, spien titled in gilt; spine darkened, ex-library with markings and tape residue to spine, stamps to pastedown and contents leaf, book-plate "Funk coined the term vitamin and discovered thiamine, the first vitamin to be isolated. In addition to his pioneering work in vitaminology, he investigated male and female hormones, gonadotropic hormones, antagonistic substances in the diet, deficiency diseases in cattle, and the importance of oncotine and oncostimuline in the treatment and prevention of cancer. Funk first published the present work in 1914 and deferred publication of this second edition because of World War I. By the time this greatly revised edition was published, much of the basic work on the role of vitamin B, in beriberi, vitamin C in scurvy, and vitamin D in rickets had been completed" (Heirs of Hippocrates).REFERENCE: Garrison-Morton 1051; Heirs of Hippocrates 2322 First American edition and first edition in English. Seller Inventory # 100516
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Title: The Vitamines … Authorized Translation from ...
Publisher: Williams & Wilkins Company, Baltimore
Publication Date: 1922
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
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