Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site kitty.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!rochester!rocksanne!sunybcs!kitty!larry From: larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman) Newsgroups: net.med Subject: Re: Re: B Vitamin Info wanted Message-ID: <310@kitty.UUCP> Date: Sun, 11-Aug-85 13:30:50 EDT Article-I.D.: kitty.310 Posted: Sun Aug 11 13:30:50 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 13-Aug-85 03:39:37 EDT References: <1820@aecom.UUCP> <229@kitty.UUCP> <629@psivax.UUCP> Distribution: na Organization: Recognition Research Corp., Clarence, NY Lines: 25 > > Don't ask if there is any rhyme or reason to the naming of vitamins... > > > Well, there *is* a little, I believe all the "B" vitamins are > water soluble, and non-B vitamins are not or some such thing. Anyone > remember exactly what the difference is? Well, if my memory serves me correctly, vitamins got their name from from a not-quite-identified amine which was used to treat beriberi, and were originally called `vitamines'. I believe this name persisted during further discovery work which yielded more `vitamines'; it was later learned that some of these substances were not amines after all, and hence the name was changed to the present `vitamin'. Most if not all B vitamins and vitamin C are water soluble. Vitamins A, D, E, and K are fat-soluble. I never learned any further rhyme or reason to the naming of vitamins. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ | Larry Lippman @ Recognition Research Corp., Clarence, New York | | UUCP {decvax,dual,rocksanne,rocksvax,watmath}!sunybcs!kitty!larry | | {rice,shell}!baylor!/ | | VOICE 716/741-9185 syr!buf!/ | | TELEX {via WUI} 69-71461 ansbak: ELGECOMCLR | | | | "Have you hugged your cat today?" | +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++