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，在马来亚群岛患过坏血，在亚历山大患过麻疯，在日本患过，在马达加斯加患过淋巴腺鼠疫，在西西里碰到过地震，在麦哲伦海峡遇到过牺牲惨重的轮船失事。

And you also get beriberi, dengue fever.

你还会患上和登革热。

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

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“”——即使稻壳中缺乏某种元素也可能是导致这种疾的原因。

While it took until 1936 for the chemical structure of this anti-beriberi factor, later named thiamine or vitamin B1, to be described, Funk had identified the existence of vitamins.

尽管直到1936年才描述了这种抗因子的化学结构，该因子后来被命名为硫胺素或维生素B1，但福克已经确认了维生素的存在。

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

本，一位名叫艾克曼的科学家试图找出“”的因。

Isolating Vitamins The anti-beriberi factor was finally identified by Japanese researcher Umetaro Suzuki.

提取维生素 抗因子最终被日本研究员铃木梅太郎识别。

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“”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，这种可怕的疾已不再常见。

He concluded that white rice lacked an essential ingredient which he called the anti-beriberi factor.

他得出结论，白米缺少一种关键成分，他称之为抗因子。

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“”的疾中看到。

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的。

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，冯克在阅读了艾希曼关于早期研究的资料后，展示了其进行的实验结果。

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1990年代， 埃伊克曼作为一名在印度尼西亚工作的荷兰医生，被赋予了寻找治疗的方法的任务，这种疾在东南亚非常普遍。

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·冯克在其提出缺乏如佝偻、糙皮和是由饮食中缺乏 vital substances（重要物质）引起的假设时，创造了“维生素”这个词。

Later, his colleague, Adolf Vorderman, conducted controlled experiments with prison inmates, some eating polished rice and some eating unpolished rice, showing that the anti-beriberi factor was present in rice husks and kernels.

后来，他的同事阿道夫·冯德曼对监狱囚犯进行了对照实验，一部分人食用精米，另一部分人食用糙米，结果显示抗因子存在于稻壳和米粒中。

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

正是在后者（伦敦的李斯特研究所）， 他开展了维生素领域的开创性工作，研究了、坏血、糙皮和佝偻。