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GB 0809 Nutrition - Nutrition collection
07 - Professor Benjamin Stanley Platt papers
09 - Beriberi and thiamine study in China
Ref No
GB 0809 Nutrition/07/09/03
Level
File
Extent
1 file
Title
Patient records used by Platt for the research into thiamine (vitamin B1) deficiency
Date
1934-1937
Description
Each patient record includes:
Admission record, identification notes, medical history, examination notes, progress, treatment, blood investigation, faeces investigation, urine investigation, photographs and graphs. Some include x-ray records, nursing records. There are also reports of electrocardiograms.
Research was carried out under the auspices of the Henry Lester Institute for Medical Research. The aim of the study was to see the effects of patients deficient in vitamin B1 and whether they were suffering from beriberi.
AccessStatus
Open (part)
Language
English
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