288 ANasruAL report Smithsonian institution, 1942 



This new industry in synthetic vitamins is making it possible to 

 satisfy many of these "hidden hungers" and to improve the nutrition 

 and well-being of our people. 



In comparing the contributions of the nutrition workers of the 

 twentieth century with those of earlier workers in the nineteenth 

 century, such as Pasteur and Lister, from whose work came a recog- 

 nition of the bacterial origin of disease, we may conclude that the 

 social value of the present work in nutrition would appear to be as 

 significant as that of the nineteenth-century investigators to whom 

 mankind owes so much. 



