Word: beriberi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With his headquarters on Corregidor, he continued to cross to Bataan to encourage his troops. He was ravaged by beriberi, emaciated. He could barely use his right leg; he dragged himself along with a cane...
...Japanese camps are dying at the rate of 50 per 1,000 per year. Last week the War Department gave out the names of an additional 291, bringing the total since Bataan and Corregidor to 929 dead of such diseases as malaria, diphtheria, dysentery, pneumonia and beriberi.* Knowing the poor condition of the men who fought on Bataan, the War Department has made no charge of maltreatment. But the Surgeon General's Office thinks the death rate high...
...Thiamin (formerly vitamin BI), preventive of beriberi, neuritis and loss of appetite, was formerly extracted from rice polishings, once cost $300 a gram. It now costs 37? a gram. Made by the ton, it goes chiefly into enriched white flour, to restore what is lost from the whole wheat in milling...
...Food was the worst problem. From the first we never had enough. Beriberi . . . spread like wildfire...
...result has been slow starvation for the 45,000 natives of the colony, its 3,000 soldiers, 150 white women and children. And with starvation, inevitably, has come disease: beriberi and scurvy. Still the officials in Djibouti have refused to yield, to admit the Free French doctors who are waiting just across the Ethiopian border with food, medicine and wine. Last week they again turned down an offer to evacuate civilians from Djibouti...