Publisher's Synopsis
The book; "True History of Vitamins" is the author's recently finished book In this book. The writer authentically describes how the concept, the idea, then the discovery of Vitamins came to play significant roles that biochemistry to become a new science discipline which then slowly has divulged what roles vitamins play in the lives of the creatures on Earth and that that how these roles were discovered by scientists despite of the fact - by Nature - nothing was evidently revealed to the world, at least not without noticing some anomalies that had struck humans as serious diseases.We can say that the concept for vitamins in those days when researchers started to look for them, but really not for the vitamins but for something that appeared to be mysterious, some unexplainable occurance or agent that had to play an important role in the living world. in the organisms, in the creatures lives.
Today medical science: biology, biochemistry research vitamins. When that concept, micro nutrients, came into the mind of the scientists observing some mysterious phenomena in Nature appearing with diseases, biochemistry did not exist.
Biochemistry started with the research for Vitamins, and the research for Vitamins started by scientists establishing the concept of micro nutrients that something was missing from the human nutrition. To validate this concept; there was 0nly one way: do the observation, and let Nature to prove it or disprove it.
Justus Liebig in his " Animal Chemistry" writings had deduced that human diet consists of carbohydrates, proteins, fats and minerals. All the scientific world had accepted it as a valid tenet
It might have been a good starting point to discover the Vitamins. But for the sufferers who were afflicted by the mysterious diseases, in many cases, it was the death sentence. As the dear reader will go trough the book she (he) will see, because of the Medicine Doctrine, the authorities stance and attitude related to health anomalies many people suffered from all over the world.
People wer suffering from mysterious disases all over the world. ome of the diseases were given names,
Some of those diseases were. Some of those mysterious diseases were treated by folk medicine practitioners, doctors using remedies found in nature. Nevertheless, some of the diseases attained dangerous, epidemic proportions in Europe, in Asia and in America as well. Yet the medical establishments, science still maintained its rigid approaches how to deal with problems even experienced doctors had shown good results treating their sick patients.
Once the practicing doctors, reseachers scientist started to observe the patients plagued by the mysterious diseases with a deeper understanding what the racked patients had gone through, things started to loom, appear, disappear in the minds of the observers.
They devised plans to experiment with animals odserving Liebig dietetic precept.
Thanks to Liebig's diet injunction led the researchers to discover all the Vitamins what we need to have in our diet to avoid certain illnesses.
The book is about two things
(1) to show all the important research, energy, sophistication what went into the heroic grind to discover the vitamins and their functions in the leving organisms. Let the world know who were the pioneers, the discoverers whom we own our tanks, our admiration that our lives we can live, without certain diseases.
The discovery of Vitamins is a monumental achievement, and it is a very uplifting to read about the way the scientists had accomplished this heroic Task.
(2) There are new laboratory analytical procedures to determine the content of Vitamin C in fruits, vegetables and industrial products.
The book sheds some light how medical and science doctrine were obstacles f.
