The Evolution of Vitamins
400 BC: Hippocrates finds that eating liver can cure night blindness
1747: James Lind finds that eating lemons or limes can prevent scurvy
1912: Dr. Casimir Funk puts forth the theory that foods contained essential chemical
substances which we now know as vitamins
1913: Vitamin A was the first vitamin to be identified by American researchers
1948: Vitamin B12 is the last vitamin to be discovered and is isolated in crystalline form
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