- MEDLINEplus Medical Encyclopedia Beriberi...www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000339.htm
- The first clinical descriptions of beriberi were by Dutch physicians, Bontius (1642) and Nicolaas Tulp (1652). Tulp treated a young Dutchman who was brought back to Holland from the East Indies suffering from what the natives of the Indies called beriberi or the ...www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/biolib/hc/nh1.html
- Beriberi - Thiamin (vitamin B-1) is a water-soluble and heat-labile vitamin that acts as a coenzyme in the decarboxylation (pyruvate and ketoglutarate) and transketolation pathways (pentose phosphate pathway) of carbohydrate metabolism, and possibly in nerve conduction (essential for the synthesis of acetylcholine). Good dietary sources of thiamin are whole grains, lean pork, and legumes.www.emedicine.com/ped/topic229.htm
