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Adolphe Guillaume Vorderman (12 December 1844 – 15 July 1902) was a Dutch physician and scientist whose study [1] of the link between polished rice and beriberi in the Dutch East Indies in 1897 helped lead to the discovery of vitamins. In addition, he was an ornithologist and botanist.
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. His contribution was exceptional because of the elaborate precautions that he took against potential biases in his investigations, which went a long ...
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). His investigations are featured in the James Lind Library because of Vorderman’s scrupulous efforts to avoid bias.
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.1His investigations are featured in the James Lind Library because of Vorderman’s scru- pulous efforts to avoid bias.
One of these stands out: an 1897 observational study on prison inmates done by Adolphe Vorderman, a government physician of the Dutch health inspectorate. He paid scrupulous attention to avoiding bias in his investigations, even the bias of his own memory ( Vorderman 1897; Vandenbroucke 2012 ).
At the end of the 19 th 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 ...
