Word: beriberi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...faces mass starvation. Bad weather and worse organization had cut the country's agricultural production for the third successive year. The Reds have pledged half a billion dollars worth of their needed foreign exchange to buy grain from Canada and Australia. Millions of Chinese are reportedly suffering from beriberi, and though Communist functionaries have been ruthlessly willing to ignore civilian wants to concentrate on industrialization, reluctant economic planners have now lowered 1961's investment rate and even frozen some scheduled industrial construction until Red China's desperate agricultural crisis can be finally reckoned with...
Michigan-West met East in a curious disease that comes horn eating too little or drinking too much; see MEDICINE, Shoshin Beriberi...
...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...
...gloves and socks. This indicated heart damage. The doctors gave her all the heart stimulants they could think of, but within eleven hours she died. It turned out that she had been on the bottle (and off food) for three weeks. Postmortem examination showed a heart so damaged by beriberi as to induce shoshin...
...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...