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How did a thieving servant help Dutch doctor Christian Eijkman win the Nobel Prize?

In 1886, the military doctor Christian Eikman (1858-1930) went to the island of Java - at that time the epidemic area of the beriberi disease. (Even in the middle of the 100th century, when the causes of this disease and methods of its treatment were known for a long time, beriberi claimed about XNUMX thousand Indonesian lives annually.)

At first, Eikman suggested that microbes caused the disease. Trying to find pathogens, he used chickens as experimental animals. Almost all the chickens were paralyzed and most died. But those who remained alive after 4 months came to their senses and fully recovered.

Puzzled, Aikman asked what the chickens were being fed. It turned out that the servant, who was initially responsible for keeping the chickens, turned out to be dishonest and fed the birds with leftover food from the local military hospital, that is, mainly peeled rice.

The second servant began to feed the chickens what they should - unpeeled rice grains. Thanks to this, the chickens overcame the disease. Aikman began to experiment and tried to deliberately keep the chickens on polished rice, after which they all fell ill. When sick chickens were transferred to brown rice, they recovered.

Trying to find out what is contained in rice husks, Aikman discovered vitamin B;, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1929.

Author: Kondrashov A.P.

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