Vitamin History, the Early Years - Lee McDowell - Google Books

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Casimer Funk 101 years ago first used the term "vitamine" in 1912. What were later to be known as vitamin-deficiency diseases, such as scurvy, beriberi, night blindness, xerophthalmia and rickets, had plagued the world at least since the existence of…