Carpenter, Kenneth J. - Beriberi, White Rice and Vitamin B: A Disease, a Cause, and a Cure

Berkeley, Univ. of California Press, (2000). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xiv,282 pp. Textual photo illustrations. Minor rubbing. VG. dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: The National Disease of Japan; Rice as a Staple Food; Studies in the Colonies: A Dutchman's Chickens; The Chicken Disease Reinterpreted; The British Take Their Turn; The Americans Call a Meeting; The Isolation & Construction of a Vitamin; Chemical Anlayses of Foods: Explanations and Surprises; Beriberi without White Rice; How Much Thiamin Do We Need? How Should the Knowledge Be Used? Aspects of the Subject in Hindsight; Appendices: Thiamin Chemistry; Thiamin Biochemistry.

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