A bit off-topic, but the Australians will love this. Im reading a book called The Emperor of All Maladies: A biography of cancer. Great book, and would put to shame the stupid arguments of the anti-vaxxers. Heres one paragraph, I just had to highlight: In 1928, a young English physician named Lucy Wills, freshly out of the London School of Medicine for Women, traveled on a grant to Bombay to study this anemia. Wills was an exotic among hematologists, an adventurous woman driven by a powerful curiosity about blood willing to travel to a faraway country to solve a mysterious anemia on a whim. She knew of Minot’s work. But unlike Minot’s anemia, she found that the anemia in Bombay couldn’t be reversed by Minot’s concoctions or by vitamin B12. Astonishingly, she found she could cure it with Marmite, the dark, yeasty spread then popular among health fanatics in England and Australia. Wills could not determine the key chemical nutrient of Marmite. She called it the Wills factor.
Posted on: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 22:53:15 +0000
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