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

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    1. Chrsitian Eijkman, 1890
    2. Java and the Suez Canal
    3. Dutch shipping routes
    4. Indonesian forest
    5. with large tree
    6. harvesting rattan vines -- for tatami mats
    7. coffee
    8. rice
    9. Batavia (in Jakarta, Dutch East Indies)
    10. Batavia harbor (1725)
    11. beriberi patients
    12. loss of sensation and muscle control in legs
    13. patient, note wrist drop
    14. Christiaan Eijkman
    15. Robert Koch and Louis Pasteur
      medical school in Batavia (1937)
    16. chicken with polyneuritis (avian "beriberi")
    17. another chicken
    18. red rice (katchang ijo) and white rice
    19. Vorderman's data
    20. mass execution in Java, 1870
    21. Gerrit Grijns
    22. sago palm and root, tapioca (taro) root
    23. mongo beans (mung beans)
    24. Gowland Hopkins
    25. Casimir Funk and Umetaro Suzuki (E.S. Edit not pictured)
    26. thiamine
    27. citric acid cycle
    28. Christian Eijkman, 1929
    29. steam-powered versus hand-milling

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