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Creator (Definite): Medicus (Our Dogs contributor)Date: 12 Aug 1938
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CitesCommittee upon Accessory Food Factors (Vitamins), Vitamins: A Survey of Present Knowledge (HM Stationary Office: London, 1932).
Description:'On several occasions recently in these "Notes" I have referred to the virtues of yeast for its vitamin values. Those values are restricted to the presence of vitamin "B." In a recent survey of up-to-date official knowledge in regard to vitamins, published by the Medical Research Council, the results are given of special and exhaustive analyses of yeast, from which it is abundantly clear that vitamin "B" is the only vitamin of any note to be found in yeast. True there is in some samples of brewers' yeast a comparatively small trace of vitamins "A" and "E," but for practical purposes these are both negligible so far as its use for canine purposes goes. On the other hand, vitamin "B" is found in exceptionally large percentage.'
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CitesQueenwood's
Description:'Since I first drew attention several years ago to the value of yeast as a vitamin food, a good deal of discussion has resulted, and latterly its commercial possibilities have attracted the attention of quite a number of manufacturers of dog foods. Various firms in different parts of the country have started packing yeast in different forms - specimens of several brands have reached me quite recently. One brand which is conveniently prepared and packed in powder form and which I have examined carefully is "Queenwood's." This preparation deserves the attention of all dog-owners intent on trying what yeast will do in the way of providing vitamin "B" for dogs suffering from hysteria or otherwise not "doing well."'
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Cited byT. Quick, 'Puppy Love: Domestic Science, “Women's Work,” and Canine Care,' Journal of British Studies 58 (2) (2019), pp. 289-314.
Description:The proliferation of Lactol and similar foods contributed to a more generalreconceptualization of dog feeding as a scientific endeavor. Ads for Spratt’s Malt Milk, Vigor, and MartinMilk all emphasized their chemical nutritional credentials... Such rhetoric spilled over into the dog advice literature of the period... Medicus, having only rarely touched upon the nutritional requirements of dogs prior to the First World War, regularly returned to the topic during the 1920s and 1930s, acting as an arbiter on the relative nutritional virtues of commercial products and cheerleading the adaptation of fashionable foods such as orange juice and whole wheat to canine requirements. [note: 'For example, Medicus, “Notes for Novices: “Whole Wheatmeal Feeding,” Our Dogs, no. 89 (18 November 1932): 528; Medicus, “Notes for Novices: The Latest about Vitamins,” Our Dogs, no. 93 (1 December 1933): 653; Medicus, “Notes for Novices: Yeast for Dogs,” Our Dogs, no. 112 (12 August 1938): 507. On the health benefits accorded wholemeal bread at this time, see Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska, “‘Not a Complete Food for Man’: The Controversy about White versus Wholemeal Bread in Interwar Britain,” in Setting Nutritional Standards: Theory Policies Practices, ed. Elizabeth Neswald, David F. Smith, and Ulrike Thoms (Rochester, NY, 2017), 142–64.']' (297)
