Word: b1
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...them polished rice; then natural rice, with all its bran coating. When the pigeons got the coating they thrived; when they did not they suffered from polyneuritis. Obviously, the bran-fed pigeons were getting a nutrient that the others were not. Funk concentrated the nutrient, now known as vitamin B1...
...vitamins are A, D, E, C (ascorbic acid), B1 (thiamine), B2 (riboflavin), Niacin, B6, folic acid, pantothenic acid, and B12. The minerals are calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, iron, iodine and copper...
Beriberi is a deficiency disease (lack of vitamin B1), commonest among Orientals, who eat polished rice, and Western alcoholics, who eat next to nothing. The Japanese have described an acute form of the disease, which kills suddenly by causing the heart to collapse; they call it shoshin (from sho, acute damage, and shin, heart). Now West meets East as two Detroit doctors report in the New England Journal of Medicine that shoshin beriberi may kill U.S. alcoholics...
...condition need not be fatal, Drs. Paul L. Wolf and Murray B. Levin suggest. A few months later they suspected beriberi in a man of 54, and added massive doses of B1 to the battery of drugs they gave him. His heart was saved. Shoshin beriberi, they conclude, deserves more attention...