Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Illustrations VII
4. Tables IX
5. Preface XI
6. CHAPTER 1. The National Disease of Japan 1875-1885 1
7. CHAPTER 2. Rice as a Staple Food 15
8. CHAPTER 3. Studies in the Colonies: A Dutchman's Chickens 1803-1896 24
9. CHAPTER 4. The Chicken Disease Reinterpreted 1896-1904 52
10. CHAPTER 5. The British Take Their Turn 1902-1909 64
11. CHAPTER 6. The Americans Call a Meeting 1910-1912 80
12. CHAPTER 7. The Isolation and Construction of a Vitamin 1912-1938 96
13. CHAPTER 8. Chemical Analyses of Foods Explanations and Surprises 116
14. CHAPTER 9. Beriberi without White Rice 133
15. CHAPTER 10. How Much Thiamin Do We Need? 155
16. CHAPTER 11. How Should the Knowledge Be Used? 168
17. CHAPTER 12. Aspects of the Subject in Hindsight 193
18. APPENDIX A. Thiamin Chemistry 205
19. APPENDIX B. Thiamin Biochemistry 213
20. Notes 221
21. References 241
22. Index 275