The Story of Beriberi
Using History to Teach Science |
Worksheet for class
Please refer to the Sourcebook for Teaching Science for the text. These
pictures are to be used in conjunction with the activity in the book.
Indonesia Map | Jakarta in the Dutch East Indies | Beriberi | Indonesian rice farm | Louis Pasteur | Christiaan Eijkman
Indonesia: Source:
Site of present day Jakarta: Dutch Settlement in the
East Indies. Batavia, Java, approximately. 1665.
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Beri-beri:
Rice farming in Indonesia: Source:
Louis Pasteur (by Albert Edelfelt):
Christiaan Eijkman; 1858 - 1930; Utrecht University; Utrecht, the Netherlands
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or
Medicine 1929 "for his discovery of the antineuritic vitamin"
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