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Title: When, how, and by whom was thiamin discovered? Post by: mikael on Aug 17, 2013 When, how, and by whom was thiamin discovered?
Title: Re: When, how, and by whom was thiamin discovered? Post by: padre on Aug 19, 2013 • In the 1890s in east Asia, a Dutch doctor, Christiann Eijkman, paved the way for the discovery of thiamin.
• He noticed that chickens and pigeons that ate polished rice developed polyneuritis. • Eijkman noted that polyneuritis was also a symptom of beriberi in humans. • Eijkman changed the birds' diet and the birds recovered. • In 1911, Casimir Funk identified thiamin as the curative factor in the unpolished rice. Title: Re: When, how, and by whom was thiamin discovered? Post by: mikael on Aug 19, 2013 :) Thanks
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