Toward the Conquest of Beriberi
Author : Robert R. Williams
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Page : 376 pages
File Size : 34,24 MB
Release : 1961
Category : Medical
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Author : Robert R. Williams
Publisher :
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 34,24 MB
Release : 1961
Category : Medical
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Author : Robert Ramapatnam WILLIAMS
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Page : 338 pages
File Size : 23,34 MB
Release : 1961
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Author : Dr. Robert Runnels Williams
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Page : 338 pages
File Size : 30,22 MB
Release : 1961
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Author : Robert Ramapatnam Williams
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Page : 338 pages
File Size : 20,82 MB
Release : 1961
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Author : Alexander R. Bay
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 30,44 MB
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 1580464270
The history of the medical and scientific debate about the etiology of the disease as it played out between diet theorists and contagionists from 1880 to 1940. In modern Japan, beriberi (or thiamin deficiency) became a public health problem that cut across all social boundaries, afflicting even the Meiji Emperor. During an age of empire building for the Japanese nation, incidence rates in the military ranged from 30 percent in peacetime to 90 percent during war. Doctors and public health officials called beriberi a "national disease" because it festered within the bodies of the people and threatened the health ofthe empire. Nevertheless, they could not agree over what caused the disease, attributing it to a diet deficiency or a microbe. In Beriberi in Modern Japan, Alexander R. Bay examines the debates over the etiologyof this "national disease" during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Etiological consensus came after World War I, but the struggle at the national level to direct beriberi prevention continued, peaking during wartime mobilization. War served as the context within which scientific knowledge of beriberi and its prevention was made. The story of beriberi research is not simply about the march toward the inevitable discovery of "the beriberi vitamin," but rather the history of the role of medicine in state-making and empire-building in modern Japan. Alexander Bay is assistant professor of history at Chapman University.
Author : George H. Beaton
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 29,55 MB
Release : 1964-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 032314568X
Nutrition, Volume II: Vitamins, Nutrient Requirements, and Food Selection focuses on the requirement, metabolism, and manifestations of deficiency of the individual nutrients. This book discusses the philosophy of dietary standards and compares the dietary standards from several countries. Organized into nine chapters, this volume starts with an overview of the concept of nutritional adaptation and its significance in human nutrition. This text then explains the absorption, transport, and deposition of vitamin A. Other chapters explore the structures, properties, functions, excretions, and toxicities of B vitamins, which include niacin, thiamine, and riboflavin. This book discusses as well the chemistry, absorption, and metabolic functions of pyridoxal phosphate and cobalamin. The final chapter explains the factors affecting food choice in humans and discusses as well the patterns of food use in many areas of the world. This book is a valuable resource for nutritional biochemists, nutritionists, teachers, graduate students, and research workers.
Author : George Childs Kohn
Publisher : Infobase Holdings, Inc
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 32,7 MB
Release : 2021-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1646937694
Praise for the previous edition: "...the entries provide vivid historical detail...No other work approaches this topic in such a brief, encyclopedic manner...a useful addition to any academic reference collection..."-Choice "...a useful resource for high school and public libraries..."-Booklist "...does an excellent job...a conscious effort to put a human perspective on pestilence...Given the climate of the times and the concerns about bioterrorism, this title would be useful for a variety of subject areas. Recommended."-The Book Report Tracing the history of infectious diseases from the Philistine plague of 11th century BCE to the COVID-19 pandemic, Encyclopedia of Plague and Pestilence, Fourth Edition is a comprehensive A-to-Z reference offering international coverage of this timely and fascinating subject. This updated volume provides concise descriptions of more than 740 epidemics, listed alphabetically by location of the outbreak. Each detailed entry includes when and where a particular epidemic began, how and why it happened, who it affected, how it spread and ran its course, and its outcome and significance. Full-color and black-and-white photographs, maps, appendixes, a bibliography, and a chronology are also included. New and updated coverage includes: Cholera Cocoliztli COVID-19 Ebola H1N1 Hepatitis A HIV/AIDS Legionnaires' Disease Malaria MERS Rift Valley fever Typhoid Yellow Fever Zika
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Page : 324 pages
File Size : 36,91 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Diet
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Author : Kenneth F. Kiple
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,56 MB
Release : 2003-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521528504
A study of black disease immunities and susceptibilities and their impact on slavery and racism.
Author : Robert I. Rotberg
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 49,68 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Diseases and history
ISBN : 9780262681223
This collection of essays suggests the great extent to which exploration, settlement, agricultural growth, colonization, urbanization, and even human stature were influenced by environmental and epidemiological realities, as well as by political and economic responses to those realities.