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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).
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
1 de ene. de 2009 · This historical review addresses major neurological disorders associated with deficiencies of water-soluble B vitamins: beriberi, Wernicke–Korsakoff syndrome, pellagra, neural tube defects, and subacute combined degeneration of the spinal cord.
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).
And in an investigation of the impact of polished and unpolished rice on the prevalence of beri-beri, Adolphe Vorderman, a prison medical officer in the Dutch East Indies, clearly understood the importance of masked assessment (Vorderman 1897; Vandenbroucke 2003).
