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unusual facts about vitamin B1



Takaki Kanehiro

Takaki's success occurred ten years before Christiaan Eijkman, working in Batavia, advanced his theory that beriberi was caused by a nutritional deficiency, with his later identification of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine).


see also

M74 syndrome

Thiamine (vitamin B1) deficiency in eggs is the immediate cause of M74 mortality.