Vitamins
Vitamins are many substances, many of which are already known in their chemical constitution, which, introduced into the body in small quantities, play an important role in maintaining health, growth, defense against infections, nutrition. They favor the assimilation of food, etc. Vitamins are for nutrition what the starter is for the automobile. The lack of them in the man's diet determines defined morbid states: xerophthalmia, beriberi, anemia, scurvy, rickets, etc.