Word: silverskin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...observed that the sick Javanese subsisted mainly on polished rice. He observed too that fowls suffered from an analogous polyneuritis and were feeding largely on polished rice. Putting many two's together he concluded that milling and polishing rice must remove some diet essential. He took some "silverskin" (rice pericarp) chaff, soaked it in water and fed the mash to sick fowls. They speedily recovered. Humans also recovered. Thus he showed that eating whole rice was a preventive against beriberi. As preliminary reward his colleagues made him professor of hygiene and legal medicine at the University of Utrecht...
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