Book of Donmon Teith

Excerpt from Studies in Japanese "Kakke" Or Beriberi There was no organic disease of either the heart or arteries in any of the cases here pre sented, and no fu

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.

Includes various departmental reports and reports of commissions. Cf. Gregory. Serial publications of foreign governments, 1815-1931.