Each chapter focuses on a specific vitamin, describing the researchers, the research, and the historic and scientific contexts for its discovery, and chronicling the ongoing conflict between physicians who saw illness as caused by organisms and those who saw illness as a result of dietary deficiency. The book is illustrated with B&W historical photos
and art. For those interested in components of nutrition as well as the history of the field, appendices describe some features of the vitamins in more detail. Simple glossary definitions are provided for many scientific and medical terms.

SciTech Book News

This well-researched, well-written, and highly informative volume is an excellent reference for both health professionals and the general public. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and above; general readers.

Choice

…entertaining, easy to read, and written at a level understandable by the educated layperson….most individuals interested in the early history of vitamin nutrition will find the book to be interesting, informative, and educational.

JAMA