It is now known that all these diseases, with the exception of pellagra, can be prevented and cured by the addition of certain preventive substances; the deficient substances, which are of the nature of organic bases, we will call "vitamines"
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vitaminVitamin (ger.)
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Any of a diverse group of organic compounds of which small quantities are needed in the diet because they have a distinct biochemical role, often as coenzymes, and cannot be adequately synthesized by the body, so that in most cases a deficiency produces characteristic symptoms or disease. (OED)
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Funk, C. (1912). The etiology of the deficiency diseases. J. State Med. 20, 341-68: 342.
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