SOCIETY PROCEEDINGS

Proceedings of the Nutrition Society

When the name vitamin B,, was proposed by Rickes, Brink, Koniuszy, Wood & Folkers (1948), my colleagues and I debated whether we should adopt the term or retain the earlier name ' anti-pernicious anaemia factor', even when our red crystalline substance was shown to be identical with theirs (Smith & Parker 1948; Fantes, Page, Parker & Smith, 1949). It is now abundantly clear that this substance ...

Proceedings of the Nutrition Society

Proceedings of the nutrition society.

Controversy concerning the relative nutritive merits of protein from plant ‘and animal sources is of long standing. Our conception of the total quantity of protein required has also swung wildly from one extreme to the other. This scientific problem, intrinsically difficult in itself, has been, and still is, emotionally bedevilled by prejudice and sentiment. Recent advances in biochemistry have...

Proceedings of the Helminthological Society of Washington

Proceedings of the British Cardiac Society

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