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Index • home • history • why vitamins? • Vitamin B1 • deficiency • vitamin B1 deficiency • overdose • vitamin B1 overdose • supplements • RDA • sources Site Info about us contact us about amazon about google ads privacy disclaimer links sitemap Useful Ads Beriberi, White Rice, and Vitamin B: A Disease, a Cause, and a Cure | home | all | books | healthpersonalcare | software | sportinggoods | about Amazon products | Vitamin B1 Books from Amazon Beriberi, White Rice, and Vitamin B: A Disease, a Cause, and a Cure List Price: $55.00 Amazon Price: $10.95 Average Customer Rating: No current rating. Editorial Review: In this comprehensive account of the history and treatment of beriberi, Kenneth 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 B1 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. Western doctors working in Asia after 1870 saw it as the major disease in native armed forces and prisons. It was at first attributed to miasms (poisonous vapors from damp soil) or to bacterial infections. In Java, chickens fed by chance on white rice lost the use of their legs. On brown rice, where the grain still contained its bran and germ, they remained healthy. Studies in Javanese prisons then showed beriberi also occurring where white (rather than brown) rice was the staple food. Birds were used to assay the potency of fractions extracted from rice ... 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