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In 1911 Casimir Funk, a Pole, proposed the name vitamine for this essential substance, whatever it was.
From Time Magazine Archive
Gillett advises, as a safe rule, the use of one, and preferably two foods known to be rich in the fat soluble vitamine, in each day’s food allowance, milk and leafy vegetables, for example.
From Dietetics for Nurses by Fairfax T. Proudfit
To my knowledge I had never consciously eaten vitamines unless a vitamine was what gave guaranteed strictly fresh string beans, as served at a table-d'hôte restaurant, that peculiar flavor.
From One Third Off by Tony Sarg
Also, they are rich in tonic iron and other mineral and vitamine elements needed for body tone.
From American Cookery November, 1921 by Janet McKenzie Hill
One vitamine which is found in animal fats and the leaves of plants and is soluble in, and associated with fats, is, for that reason, called fat soluble vitamine.
From Northern Nut Growers Association, Report Of The Proceedings At The Tenth Annual Meeting. Battle Creek, Michigan, December 9 and 10, 1919 by Northern Nut Growers Association
