| Christian Eijkman & the Cause of Beriberi by Douglas Allchin
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Outline Introduction: Voyaging to the Dutch East Indies, 1886 Disease, Germ Theory & Eijkman Chicken Feed Of Rice and Men Beriberi After Eijkman VISUALS [title] Chrsitian Eijkman, 1890 Java and the Suez Canal Dutch shipping routes Indonesian forest with large tree harvesting rattan vines -- for tatami mats coffee rice Batavia (in Jakarta, Dutch East Indies) Batavia harbor (1725) beriberi patients loss of sensation and muscle control in legs patient, note wrist drop Christiaan Eijkman Robert Koch and Louis Pasteur medical school in Batavia (1937) chicken with polyneuritis (avian "beriberi") another chicken red rice (katchang ijo) and white rice Vorderman's data mass execution in Java, 1870 Gerrit Grijns sago palm and root, tapioca (taro) root mongo beans (mung beans) Gowland Hopkins Casimir Funk and Umetaro Suzuki (E.S. Edit not pictured) thiamine citric acid cycle Christian Eijkman, 1929 steam-powered versus hand-milling NOS Review Questions