Vitamin B₁ (Thiamin) and its Use in Medicine

Abstract

“IT is doubtful whether the isolation and identification of any other substance in the history of biochemistry have cost as much labor as have these operations as applied to thiamin. The first gram of the pure vitamin must have cost an aggregate of several hundred thousand dollars. To mention all the names of those who have participated in some phase of the project is to call the roll of half the mature biochemists in England and the United States. The project has bulked equally largely upon the horizon of Dutch, Japanese and French Biochemistry. German participation has been relatively small until the current decade.”

Vitamin B₁ (Thiamin) and its Use in Medicine

By Dr. Robert R. Williams Prof. Tom D. Spies. (Macmillan Medical Monographs.) Pp. xvi +. (New York: The Macmillan Co., 1938.) 21s. net.