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who lived on the polished-rice diet were much more affected by beri- beri than the others. From an older study, he had de- Figure 7: Calorimeter, Nevil Monroe Hopkins, Experimental Electrochemistry ( [...] W. Sanford. Eijkman, C. (1897). Ein Versuch zur Bekämpfung der beri- beri. Archiv für pathologische Anatomie und Physiologie für klinische Medizin, 149. Funk, C. (1912). The etiology of deficiency [...] scurvy, experimen- tal scurvy in animals, infantile scurvy, ship beri-beri, pel- lagra. Journal of State Medicine, 20. Hanson, V. D. (1999). The Wars of the Ancient Greeks, Lon- don: Cassell & Co.
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awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine for his work in understanding beri- beri in 1929, he was unable to receive the award in person on account of his poor health. He succumbed to his lingering illness one