Project Gutenberg 2005-04-01 Public domain in the USA. 200 Eddy, Walter Hollis 1877 1959 The Vitamine Manual Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Richard Prairie, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team "The Vitamine Manual" by Walter H. Eddy is a scientific publication likely written in the early 20th century. The book aims to present essential data about vitamins, exploring their production, identification, and role in nutrition, catering both to students of physiological chemistry and the general public. The opening of the book introduces the significance of vitamins, beginning with the historical context of their discovery, notably by Casimir Funk in 1911. It discusses the urgent need for concise information in light of the overwhelming body of research on vitamins, especially their implications for human health and nutrition. Eddy summarizes early investigations into vitamins linked to diseases like beri-beri and emphasizes the importance of vitamins in reforming nutritional concepts, outlining the foundational research that led to the acceptance of vitamins as necessary dietary components. The initial chapters outline various experiments and observations that contributed to current understandings of vitamins, highlighting key figures and their contributions to the scientific community. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 65.1 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. en Vitamins QP Text Browsing: Nutrition Browsing: Science - General 320823 2025-06-04T04:15:54.634478 text/html 320644 2025-01-11T01:44:06.473748 text/html 175258 2025-06-04T04:16:02.415469 application/epub+zip 177197 2025-06-04T04:15:57.799434 application/epub+zip 164314 2025-06-04T04:15:56.519516 application/epub+zip 346634 2025-06-04T04:16:05.499423 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 325720 2025-06-04T04:16:01.525416 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 303182 2022-09-04T08:20:02.208085 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 286278 2025-06-04T04:15:54.269512 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 281335 2020-12-31T00:43:41 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 91400 2020-12-31T00:43:41 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 16780 2025-06-04T04:16:05.634402 application/rdf+xml 14660 2025-06-04T04:15:57.067443 image/jpeg 3628 2025-06-04T04:15:56.789467 image/jpeg 177485 2025-06-04T04:15:54.656475 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog