The vitamine manual. E-book. Formato EPUB Walter Hollis Eddy   -  Anna Ruggieri, 2017  - 

In 1911 Casimir Funk coined the name Vitamine to describe the substance which he believed curative of an oriental disease known as beri-beri. This disease is common in Japan, the Philippines and other lands where the diet consists mainly of rice, and while the disease itself was well known its cause and cure had baffled the medical men for many years.