An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2022 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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EIJKMAN, Christiaan

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Polyneuritis bij hoenders.

Geneesk. T. nederl. Indië, 30, 295; 32, 353; 1896, 36, 214, 1890, 1893.

Eijkman produced beriberi experimentally in fowls; from this he was led to conclude that a diet of over-milled rice was the chief cause, both in fowls and humans. Thus his work was of great importance in determining the aetiology of beriberi, and he further had the distinction of being the first to produce experimentally a disease of dietary deficiency origin. He shared a Nobel Prize with F. G. Hopkins in 1929. German translation in Virchows Arch. path. Anat., 1897, 148, 523-32.



Subjects: NUTRITION / DIET › Deficiency Diseases › Beriberi