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From: larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: Re: B Vitamin Info wanted
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Date: Sun, 11-Aug-85 13:30:50 EDT
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> >	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.

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