Question

Christiaan Eijkman shared the Nobel Prize in 1929 for the discovery of vitamins. Eijkman went to Java to isolate the pathogen causing beriberi, an illness that appeared to be contagious as it was common in prisons and among ship crews. Eijkman noticed that chickens fed a diet of white rice also suffered from a similar disorder. When the chickens were fed a diet of red rice, the chickens quickly recovered. Eijkman returned to the Netherlands and persuaded a prison to feed the prisoners red rice, and the incidence of beriberi decreased. What would the next step for Eijkman be?

Answer 1

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Explanation:

The next step for Eijkman would be to hypothesize that beriberi is associated with the white rice diet and red rice has the antidote. He can then go-ahead to conduct further studies in order to test the hypotheses.

He would need to set up experiments to effectively prove his hypotheses and if found to be true, report his findings to the scientific world.