The Story of Beriberi
Using History to Teach Science |
Worksheet for class
Please refer to the Sourcebook for Teaching Science for the text. These
pictures are to be used in conjunction with the activity in the book.
Indonesia Map | Jakarta in the Dutch East Indies | Beriberi | Indonesian rice farm | Louis Pasteur | Christiaan Eijkman
Indonesia: Source: CIA World Factbook
Site of present day Jakarta: Dutch Settlement in the
East Indies. Batavia, Java, approximately. 1665.
Source: Brooklyn
College History Department
Beri-beri: photo source
Rice farming in Indonesia: Source: University of Guelph
Louis Pasteur (by Albert Edelfelt): From Washington Academy of Sciences
Christiaan Eijkman; 1858 - 1930; Utrecht University; Utrecht, the Netherlands
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or
Medicine 1929 "for his discovery of the antineuritic vitamin"
Source: Nobel e-museum