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Eijkman and Beri-Beri It was a lazy summer afternoon in 1886 in Berlin, Germany at the popular Café Bauer. In one corner, a figure sporting a bushy [...] 1990. Funk, Casimir : The Etiology of the Deficiency Diseases. Beri-beri, Polyneuritis in Birds, Epidemic Deopsy, Scurvy, Experimental Scurvy in Animals, Infantile Scurvy, Ship Beri-Beri, Pellagra, in [...] Sources Allchin, Douglas : Christiaan Eijkman & the Cause of Beri-Beri, Doing biology , New York, NY 1996. Carpenter, Kenneth J/Sutherland, B : Eijkman’s Contribution to the Discovery of Vitamins,

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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