Vitamin E

From the University of California, Drs. Herbert M. Evans and K. S. Bishop last week announced through the California State Board of Health the influence of the mysterious Vitamin X which they now have renamed E. This vitamin stimulates reproduction in animals, prevents sterility. It is a complex organic compound, like the four other known vitamins,* and occurs in lettuce, wheat germs, alfalfa and egg yolk. Because humans eat largely of these foods, the discovery has little bearing on their habits.

*Vitamin A helps young animals grow, keeps them from certain eye affections; its absence is a factor in rickets. Vitamin B stimulates the metabolic processes, especially those concerned in digestion and assimilation of food. Vitamin C prevents scurvy.