Beriberi, white rice, and vitamin B : a disease, a cause, and a cure / Kenneth J. Carpenter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carpenter, Kenneth J. (Kenneth John), 1923-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Beri-beri--History.

Beri-beri.

Vitamin B1--History.

Vitamin B1.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (297 pages)

Edition:

Reprint 2020

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Preliminaries; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Preface; 1. The National Disease of Japan; 2. Rice as a Staple Food; 3. Studies in the Colonies: A Dutchman's Chickens; 4. The Chicken Disease Reinterpreted; 5. The British Take Their Turn; 6. The Americans Call a Meeting; 7. The Isolation and Construction of a Vitamin; 8. Chemical Analyses of Foods: Explanations and Surprises; 9. Beriberi without White Rice; 10. How Much Thiamine Do We Need?; 11. How Should the Knowledge Be Used?; 12. Aspects of the Subject in Hindsight; Appendices; Notes; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780520923645

0520923642

9781597344883

1597344885

OCLC:

70771822