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EIJKMAN, Christiaan (1858 – 1930)

1858 – 1930

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

1890 CE

#3741

Polyneuritis bij hoenders.

Eijkman produced beriberi experimentally in fowls; from this he was led to conclude that a diet of over-milled rice was the chief cause, both in fowls and humans. Thus his work was of great importance in determining t…