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Thiamine deficiency is a medical condition of low levels of thiamine (vitamin B 1). [1] A severe and chronic form is known as beriberi. [1] [7] The name beriberi was possibly borrowed in the 18th century from the Sinhalese phrase බැරි බැරි (bæri bæri, “I cannot, I cannot”), owing to the weakness caused by the condition.
In 1897, Vorderman visited all of the around 100 prisons on the island of Java. He took samples of the prison rice and examined the prison records to determine the number of beriberi cases. He kept the real purpose of his visits secret so that word did not get around the Chinese rice suppliers and lead them to change the type of rice they provided.
It was an endemic disease in northern Italy, where it was named, from Lombard, by Francesco Frapolli of Milan. [28] With pellagra affecting over 100,000 people in Italy by the 1880s, debates raged as to how to classify the disease (as a form of scurvy , elephantiasis or as something new), and over its causation.
Here are links to possibly useful sources of information about Beriberi. PubMed provides review articles from the past five years (limit to free review articles ) The TRIP database provides clinical publications about evidence-based medicine .
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These outbreaks were first blamed on the poor because they were said to smell bad and be immoral. This population was believed to cause "bad air." Foul urban air at the time was the prevailing theory of how disease was transmitted (miasma theory). [29] Physician John Snow was an anesthesiologist.
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Manuel A. Zamora (1870-1929) was a Filipino chemist and pharmacist best known for his discovery of the tiki-tiki formula against beriberi. [ 1 ] Personal life and education