The vitamin A story[electronic resou...
Semba, Richard D.

 

  • The vitamin A story[electronic resource] :lifting the shadow of death /
  • Record Type: Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
    [NT 15000414]: 612.3 s
    Title/Author: The vitamin A story : lifting the shadow of death // Richard D. Semba.
    Author: Semba, Richard D.
    Published: Basel ; : Karger,, c2012.
    Description: 1 online resource (xv, 207 p.) : : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.)
    Subject: Vitamin A deficiency - History.
    Subject: Vitamin A - History.
    Subject: Vitamin A Deficiency - history.
    Subject: History, 19th Century.
    Subject: History, 20th Century.
    Subject: Night Blindness - history.
    Subject: Vitamin A - therapeutic use.
    ISBN: 9783318021899 (electronic bk.)
    ISBN: 331802189X (electronic bk.)
    [NT 15000227]: Includes bibliographical references and index.
    [NT 15000228]: Vitamin A deficiency in nineteenth century naval medicine -- Paris in the time of Francois Magendie -- Deprivation provides a laboratory -- Free but not equal -- The long, rocky road to understanding vitamins -- Milk, butter, and early steps in human trials -- Rise of the 'anti-infective vitamin' -- Vitamin A deficiency in Europe's former colonies -- Saving the children : rescue missions against strong undertow -- Night blindness among Black troops and White troops in the U.S. Civil War.
    Online resource: http://www.karger.com/Book/Home/256966
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