The discovery of beri-beri and scurvy vitamins - two hundred and two years from its discovery

Piro, A; Tagarelli, A; Quattrone, A

Piro, A (reprint author), Natl Res Council Italy, Inst Mol Bioimaging & Physiol, Res Sect, Viale Europa, I-88100 Catanzaro, Italy.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR VITAMIN AND NUTRITION RESEARCH, 2019; 89 (5-6): 225

Abstract

The history of the discovery of vitamins was the history of their deficiency disorders. Casimir Funk, the father of vitaminic therapy, studied the int......

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