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two-hundred-and-eighty thou- sand prisoners in Javanese prisons, Eijkman managed to find the cure. Using the findings of Eijkman’s study, scientists were able to isolate a nutrient called thiamin, also [...] the research efforts, in either Java or the Netherlands, to find the exact cause of beriberi. Discussion 4 • What was Eijkman trying to find out with his different versions of diet for chickens? • Why [...] answers to the following questions. a) What was Eijkman trying to find out with his many versions of diet? b) Why could Eijkman not find an explanation? c) What advice would you have for Eijkman? Instructions:
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James Lind con- ducted the first controlled clinical test (medical research), and published his findings in 1753 (A Treatise of the Scurvy - The Treaty of scurvy). Unfortunately, this work was by the medi-
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became a member of the Philosophical and Medical Society of Edinburgh. But his important scientific findings he published in 1753 in his classic work A Treatise on the Scurvy and dedicated it to Lord Anson
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this photo we can see the cover of the History of Medicine book. Please observe this photo. You can find more information about the scurvy. Research in the internet in order to construct a poster for the
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increase the budget of the Bavarian army while increasing the number of troops and their wages, he had to find a means to re- duce costs. The first measure was to lower the costs of the soldiers’ uniforms by employing [...] part, based on experi- ments Santorio conducted on himself. On the opening page of his book, one finds an illustration of the ex- help with minor tasks if they wanted to do so (see Redlich 1971, pp. 184 [...] perspiration. Additionally, he invented measurement devices to determine pulse and body temperature. His findings are the first results from a long-term study on human metabolism. Energy in Combustion Whereas Santorio
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two-hundred-and-eighty thou- sand prisoners in Javanese prisons, Eijkman managed to find the cure. Using the findings of Eijkman’s study, scientists were able to isolate a nutrient called thiamin, also [...] spread across the West Indies in the late nineteenth century, one man was devoting all his efforts to finding a cure for it. This man was Christiaan Eijkman, and the disease was beriberi. Through careful ex [...] the recently widowed Eijkman, still suffering from malaria, joined the committee, whose task was to find the cause of the disease so that it could be cured, or at least prevented. Once again, Eijkman traveled
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presented his results. Yet the scient- ists at these meetings were not really inter- ested in his findings and did not respond – ac- tually they did not even criticize his results even though they were far
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scientific thinking and innovation with the brewer’s interest in highly accurate measurements. His findings and publications greatly improved the efficiency of many 19th century industrial machines and processes [...] heat could neither be created nor destroyed. Joule’s theory was so controversial that he could not find a scientific journal to publish it. It first appeared in a local Manchester newspaper. Finally he [...] become chemically attached and deliver charge. By carefully measuring currents, Joule was able to find the “affinity” of oxygen with plates of various elements. He then compared this with the heat produced
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g theory. Through letters, Thomson and Joule discussed their experiments and argued about their findings. Over a few years, and many letters, Thomson became more convinced of Joule’s theory of heat, and [...] temperature that accompanies expansion of a gas when there is no work done, or heat transferred. Their findings led to a greater acceptance of Joule’s work in the scientific community. One of the more popular
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with this issue. However, Rumford published 1 The background of these experiments was the idea to find out which part of the (visible) spectrum might affect lenses in a telescope in the most significant [...] energy dis- sipation (and in this respect entropy) had been developed, both Joule’s and Carnot’s findings were no longer in contradiction. In some sense, this contradiction together with the growing ac- [...] is relevant for the acceptance of Joule’s work in the British scientific community: Ignoring his findings may in part be explained by the fact that Joule was a brewery owner in Man- chester. Even though