Outline
Introduction: Voyaging to the Dutch East Indies, 1892
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Intro 2
What causes beriberi?
Of rice: pursuing an accident with chickens
Of men: a natural experiment
Sequel: an error? and a Nobel prize
"The" cause of beriberi?
VISUALS
- Chrsitiaan 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 patient
- symptoms and problems of the disease
- patient, note wrist drop
- Robert Koch and Louis Pasteur
- Christiaan Eijkman
- 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. Edie not pictured)
- thiamine
- citric acid cycle
- Christian Eijkman, 1929
- steam-powered versus hand-milling
- Schubert Club gamelan
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