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Adolphe Guillaume Vorderman (12 December 1844 – 15 July 1902) was a Dutch physician and scientist whose study of the link between polished rice and beriberi in the Dutch East Indies in 1897 helped lead to the discovery of vitamins.
Adolphe Vorderman (1844–1902), a Dutch government doctor who worked in the Dutch East Indies, was one of the people who made careful observations on groups of humans receiving differing diets.
This paper highlights Adolphe Vorderman’s investigations of the causes of beriberi using epidemiologic observations among prison inmates in the Dutch East Indies (today Indonesia) in the 1890s (Vorderman 1897).
Les vertus du riz complet. Il suggéra toutefois à son ami Adolphe Vorderman (1844-1902), inspecteur de la santé à Java, d’établir une statistique des cas de béribéri rapportés au type de riz consommé : elle montra que la maladie n’était que fort peu observée lorsque les prisonniers cuisinaient eux-mêmes le riz brut qui leur était donné.
This paper highlights Adolphe Vorderman’s investigations of the causes of beriberi using epi-demiological observations among prison inmates in the Dutch East Indies (today Indonesia) in the 1890s.1 His investigations are featured in the James Lind Library because of Vorderman’s scru-pulous efforts to avoid bias. He built a number of
At the end of the 19th century, Adolphe Vorderman, a prison medical officer in the Dutch East Indies, used blinding to obtain unbiased estimates of the effects of unpolished rice in preventing beri-beri.
VordermanAG. Vorderman, Adolphe Guillaume. (Source: Flora Malesiana ser. 1, 1: Cyclopaedia of collectors) Born: 1844, The Hague, Holland. Died: July 15, 1902, Batavia, Java. career: Physician who came to the D.E.I. in 1866 as Medical Officer in the Navy; since 1871 appointed in the Civil Health Department, first stationed at Soemenep (Isl. of ...
