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English: The single-paragraph paper which provided the structure and name of the compounds known today as Vitamins

J.C.Drummond, “The Nomenclature of the So-called Accessory Food Factors (Vitamins)” Biochemical Journal ( 1920), 14:660


IN 1912 Hopkins published his classical paper in which he described theimportant influence of certain dietary constituents on the processes of growthand nutrition. These substances he termed the "accessory factors of the diet."At about the same time Funk, who was working on the subject of experi-mental beriberi, coined the name " Vitamine" for the same class of substances.Since then the literature has been a good deal confused by the great varietyof names which have been utilised to denote these or similar dietary con-stituents (auximones, Bottomley; nutramines, Abderhalden, etc.). The criticismusually raised against Funk's word Vitamine is that the termination "-ine"is one strictly employed in chemical nomenclature to denote substances of abasic character, whereas there is no evidence which supports his original ideathat these indispensable dietary constituents are amines. The word has,however, been widely adopted, and therefore until we know more about theactual nature of the substances themselves, it would be difficult and perhapsunwise to eliminate it altogether. The suggestion is now advanced that thefinal "-e" be dropped, so that the resulting word Vitamin is acceptable underthe standard scheme of nomenclature adopted by the Chemical Society,which permits a neutral substance of undefined composition to bear a nameending in "-in." If this suggestion is adopted, it is recommended that thesomewhat cumbrous nomenclature introduced by McCollum (Fat-soluble A,Water-soluble B), be dropped, and that the substances be spoken of asVitamin A, B, C, etc. This simplified scheme should be quite sufficient untilsuch time as the factors are isolated, and their true nature identified
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Source J.C.Drummond, “The Nomenclature of the So-called Accessory Food Factors (Vitamins)” Biochemical Journal ( 1920), 14:660
Author Jack Drummond

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