Which Vitamin Was Discovered in 1897?
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In 1897, Dutch physician Christiaan Eijkman conducted landmark research in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) that uncovered a substance preventing the debilitating disease beriberi. His work, involving chickens fed different types of rice, directly led to the conceptual discovery of **vitamin B1**, or thiamine. This marked a pivotal moment in nutritional science, proving diseases could be caused by dietary deficiencies rather than infections.
