Kenneth Carpenter (2003) wrote about the origin of the “vitamin” concept as follows: It is sometimes asked, Who first had the idea of vitamins? One can find tantalizing early quotations, but they were not followed up at the time… In 1842 George Budd also lecturing in London added, “Scurvy is only one of a number of diseases due to specific dietary deficiencies, another is rickets and a third is characterized by a peculiar ulceration of the cornea” In a 1840 review on scurvy, two years before the text to which Carpenter referred to, George Budd formulated the vitamin concept as follows: “We are ignorant of the essential element [~vitamin], common to the juices of antiscorbutic plants, on which the properties in question depend; but shall, probably, not be deemed too sanguine, if we anticipate that the study of organic chemistry, and the experiments of physiologists, will at no distant period throw some light on this subject” (p.77).“When we reflect that the exclusive cause of scurvy, is prolonged abstinence from the juices of succulent plants and fruits; that by the use of these it may always be prevented; and that, when it exists even in its highest degree, it may be speedily cured by the same means, the inference is plain, that these juices contain some element essential [~vitamin] to the formation of healthy blood; and the history of scurvy shows that they cannot be replaced by any of the other elementary nutritive substances from the vegetable kingdom. (p.90-91).