Beriberi, white rice, and vitamin B: a disease, a cause, and a cure
"In this account of the history and treatment of beriberi, Kenneth J. Carpenter traces the decades of medical and chemical research that solved the puzzle posed by this mysterious disease. Caused by the lack of a minute quantity of the chemical thiamin, or vitamin B[subscript 1], in the diet, b...
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Zusammenfassung: | "In this account of the history and treatment of beriberi, Kenneth J. Carpenter traces the decades of medical and chemical research that solved the puzzle posed by this mysterious disease. Caused by the lack of a minute quantity of the chemical thiamin, or vitamin B[subscript 1], in the diet, beriberi is characterized by weakness and loss of feeling in the feet and legs, then swelling from fluid retention, and finally heart failure." "Beriberi is a story of contested knowledge and erratic scientific pathways. It offers a chronicle of the development of scientific thought, a history that encompasses public health, science, diet, trade, expanding empires, war, and technology."--BOOK JACKET. |
Beschreibung: | XIV, 282 S. Ill., graph. Darst., Kt. |
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adam_text | Contents
List of Illustrations vii
List of Tables ix
Preface xi
1. The National Disease of Japan 1
2. Rice as a Staple Food 15
3. Studies in the Colonies: A Dutchman s Chickens 24
4. The Chicken Disease Reinterpreted 52
5. The British Take Their Turn 64
6. The Americans Call a Meeting 80
7. The Isolation and Construction of a Vitamin 96
8. Chemical Analyses of Foods: Explanations
and Surprises 116
9. Beriberi without White Rice 133
10. How Much Thiamin Do We Need? 155
11. How Should the Knowledge Be Used? 168
12. Aspects of the Subject in Hindsight 193
Appendix A: Thiamin Chemistry 205
Appendix B: Thiamin Biochemistry 213
Notes 221
References 241
Index 275
Illustrations
1.1 Beriberi in a Japanese soldier 3
1.2 A nineteenth century Japanese physician 5
1.3 Seasonal distribution of the disease in Japan 7
2.1 Transplanting young rice plants, growing in water 16
2.2 Flooded terraces for growing rice 16
2.3 A panicle of rice ready for harvest 18
2.4 Village method of pounding rice paddy 19
2.5 Rice grains at three stages of processing 20
2.6 A power mill for producing white rice 21
3.1 Schematic map of Southeast Asia 25
3.2 Contrasting cases of dry and wet beriberi
in the Dutch East Indies 33
3.3 Christiaan Eijkman 36
3.4 A chicken with polyneuritis 37
3.5 Stained sections from degenerated nerves 37
3.6 Javanese prisoners with beriberi 47
3.7 The incidence of beriberi in Javanese prisons according
to the type of rice fed to the prisoners 50
4.1 Beriberi statistics for the Dutch Indies navy (1873 98) 55
4.2 Gerrit Grijns 58
6.1 Squalid and scanty straw huts, in which soldiers
typically recovered from beriberi 87
6.2 Soldiers in the Japanese army in Manchuria,
which suffered heavily from beriberi 89
7.1 Pigeon showing head retraction after being fed
on white rice, and its cure with a vitamin extract 97
7.2 Postage stamp in honor of Umetaro Suzuki 98
7.3 Growth curves of rats on purified diet with
and without milk 104
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74 Results from a rat assay for vitamin Bj 107
7.5 The Eijkman Institute, where the anti beriberi vitamin
was first isolated 109
7.6 Crystals of thiamin, obtained by R. R. Williams
in 1933 112
j.j R. R. Williams demonstrating the structure of
thiamin 114
8.1 Estimated thiamin concentrations of diets in Eijkman s
early chicken trials in relation to their outcome 117
8.2 Thiamin contents in different staple foods 120
8.3 Thiamin contents in raw and parboiled rice milled
to different degrees 125
8.4 Dissection of the rice grain 126
9.1 Beriberi in the Tuscaloosa asylum in relation to water
contamination from sewage 139
9.2 An isolated outport in Newfoundland 141
10.1 Wet beriberi in Europeans interned in Hong Kong
during World War II 157
11.1 Public notice of rice enrichment in Bataan 180
11.2 Enriched rice being loaded from a small mill in Bataan 181
11.3 Annual mortality rates from beriberi in Japan, 1930 65 189
B.i Lactic acid levels in the blood of beriberi patients 214
Tables
2.1 Early analyses of cereal grains 23
3.1 The sequence of Eijkman s first experiments 40
3.2 Proportion of prisons with beriberi, after their division
into different categories 48
4.1 Incidence of beriberi in mental patients receiving
different treatments 62
5.1 Lifestyle differences among three ethnic groups
in Malaya 67
5.2 Health records of mental patients fed different types
of rice in Malaya 75
6.1 Results of ninety seven days of feeding three test diets
in a Philippine prison 92
8.1 The thiamin contributed by the different parts
of a sample of dehusked rice grains 127
8.2 Estimates of thiamin present in a representative daily
diet in the United States in 1940 131
9.1 Estimates of the median daily food and thiamin intakes
during winter of adults in families in Newfoundland
where at least one person developed beriberi 142
10.1 Experiences with one hundred groups diets ranked
according to their estimated thiamin content 164
11.1 Results from two areas of the Bataan Peninsula, where
one received enriched rice for two years 182
11.2 Recorded beriberi mortality rates per 100,000 of
the population in different areas of the Philippines
in successive years 185
A.i How the empirical formula for vitamin B, was
determined 206
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