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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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