Editing Vitamin (section)

==Etymology==
The term "vitamin" was derived from "vitamine", a [[blend word|portmanteau]] coined in 1912 by the [[biochemist]] Casimir Funk while working at the [[Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine]].<ref name = "Funk">{{cite journal | vauthors = Funk C |title=The etiology of the deficiency diseases. Beri-beri, polyneuritis in birds, epidemic dropsy, scurvy, experimental scurvy in animals, infantile scurvy, ship beri-beri, pellagra |journal=Journal of State Medicine |date=1912 |volume=20 |pages=341–368 |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015069802166&view=1up&seq=351}} The word "vitamine" is coined on p. 342: "It is now known  that all these diseases, with the exception of pellagra, can be prevented and cured by the addition of certain preventative substances; the deficient substances, which are of the nature of organic bases, we will call "vitamines"; and we will speak of a beri-beri or scurvy vitamine, which means a substance preventing the special disease."</ref> Funk created the name from ''vital'' and ''amine'', because it appeared that these organic micronutrient food factors that prevent beriberi and perhaps other similar dietary-deficiency diseases were required for life, hence "vital", and were chemical amines, hence "amine". This was true of [[thiamine]], but after it was found that vitamin C and other such micronutrients were not amines, the word was shortened to "vitamin" in English.<ref name= "Combs_2008" />