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Christiaan Eijkman is trying to cure people from a strange illness. Beri-Beri was known in the dutch colonies for a long time, but researchers were unable to identify the cause for the disease. The history of finally understanding cause and effect of Beri-Beri is far from being straightforward. Eijkman and Beri-Beri "There's lots to be done, but they had an idea how to show, that the

the story of Sibylla Maria Merian. Nourishment with stories on Beri-Beri, scurvy, the physiological meaning of breathing, and and the development of meat extracts. Periodic system with a story on