He had survived pellagra in Persia, scurvy in the Malayan archipelago, leprosy in Alexandria, beriberi in Japan, bubonic plague in Madagascar, an earthquake in Sicily, and a disastrous shipwreck in the Strait of Magellan.

他在波斯患过癞病，在马来亚群岛患过坏血病，在亚历山大患过麻疯病，在日本患过脚气病，在马达加斯加患过淋巴腺鼠疫，在西西里碰到过地震，在麦峡遇到过牺牲惨重的轮船失事。

And you also get beriberi, dengue fever.

你还会患上脚气病和登革热。

He began to consider the possibility that eating unpolished rice somehow prevented or cured " beriberi" -even that a lack of some element in the husk might be the cause of the disease.

他开始考虑吃未精米的可能性，以某种方式预防或治愈“脚气病”——即使稻壳中缺乏某种元素可能是导致这种疾病的原因。

In 1911, Suzuki described a nutrient, he called it aberic acid, which he had extracted from rice bran and given to patients as a cure for beriberi.

1911年， 铃木描述了一种营养素，他称之为阿贝里酸， 这是他从米糠中提取出来并用于治疗脚气病的。

In the early years of this century, a scientist named Eijkman was trying to discover the cause of " beriberi" .

本世纪初，一位名曼的科学家试图找出“脚气病”的病因。

Also, in 1912, Funk presented the results of studies he had performed after reading about Eichmann's earlier work on beriberi.

此外，1912年，冯在阅读了希曼关于脚气病早期研究的资料后，展示了其进行的实验结果。

The element needed to prevent " beriberi" was shortly afterwards isolated from rice husks and is now known as vitamin B. Nowadays, this terrible disease is much less common thanks to our know-edge of vitamins.

不久之后，人们从稻壳中分离出了预防“脚气病”所需的元素，现在被称为维生素 B。如今，由于我们对维生素的了解，这种可怕的疾病已不再常见。

In the 1890s, Eijkman, a Dutch physician working in Indonesia, was tasked with finding a cure for beriberi, which was commonplace in Southeast Asia.

在19世纪90年代， 埃伊曼作为一名在印度尼西亚工作的荷兰医生，被赋予了寻找治疗脚气病的方法的任务，这种疾病在东南亚非常普遍。

An example of the dangers of a restricted diet may be seen in the disease known as " beriberi" .

限制饮食的危险的一个例子可以在被称为“脚气病”的疾病中看到。

In 1912, Kazimierz Funk, a Polish-born biochemist, coined the term vitamin when he published his hypothesis that deficiency diseases such as rickets, pelagra and beriberi are caused by a lack of vital substances in the diet.

1912年，出生在波兰的生物化学家卡西米尔·冯在其提出缺乏病如佝偻病、糙皮病和脚气病是由饮食中缺乏 vital substances（重要物质）引起的假设时，创造了“维生素”这个词。

It was at the latter that he conducted his pioneering work on vitamins, researching beriberi, scurvy, pellagra and rickets.

正是在后者（敦的李斯特研究所）， 他开展了维生素领域的开创性工作，研究了脚气病、坏血病、糙皮病和佝偻病。

Eichmann stumbled across the link between diet and beriberi by accident in 1897. He noticed that chickens fed with polished rice developed beriberi, but they soon recovered when their diet reverted to kitchen scraps.

1897年， 希曼偶然发现了饮食与脚气病之间的联系。 他注意到，食用精米的小鸡患上了脚气病，但当它们的饮食恢复到厨房残羹时， 很快又康复了。