Throughout my research life, I experienced to discover the causes of some neurological diseases in Japan. 1) SMON (subacute myelo-optico-neuropathy). Since the early 1960s, a peculiar neurological disease became prevalent throughout Japan. Through the chemical analysis of the green urine, characteristic of this disease, it was found that this disease was caused by intoxication of the administer...

BY THE BEGINNING of the twentieth century, many diseases could be causally explained by the germ theory. However, other important diseases defied every attempted explanation. One such disease was beriberi which, in some groups, was responsible for more deaths than were all the infectious illnesses combined.' To explain how beriberi was caused, a new theory of disease was developed, the deficien...

According to Stedman's Medical Dictionary, a vitamin is 'one of a group of organic substances, present in minute amounts in natural foodstuffs, that are essential to normal metabolism.' As defined, vitamins are present in very small quantities in most foods and it is this fact that leads to the manufacture of vitamin supplements for dogs, cats, and people. Not only are vitamins naturally presen...

" Even in cases of so-called beri-beri is the presence of the anchylostoma in them convincing evidence that they alone cause tbe disease and in the way suggested ? I think not."?Surg.-Major Dobson, Assam.?Report, 1892,^;. 66. " I altogether doubt the existence of any specific disease to which the term ankylostomiasis can be justly applied. * * * I maintain that it has yet to be shown that the p...