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The author, since his return from Japan, has been at work with the 
Okata-Kokubo coccus and has inoculated with it a number of monkeys 
and other animals. His results, as far as concerns the production in 
these animals of a disease similar to beri-beri in man, have not been 
encouraging. However, it is altogether too early to permit of any definite 
statements. These and other experiments will be fully dealt with in a 
future publication. 
In concluding this preliminary report, it is my agreeable duty to 
express my sincerest thanks to those Japanese colleagues who have so 
liberally and willingly assisted me in the study of the beri-beri material 
to which T had access during my stay in Japan, and I wish particularly 
to thank Surgeons-General Koike and Okata, Colonel Onishi, Majors 
Kokubo, Shimada, Tanaka, Shimose, Hirai, and Kitamura, of the army, 
and Professors M. Miura, K. Miura, Kitasato, Shiga, and Doi, of the 
Imperial University and the Government Institute for Infectious 
Diseases, and also Captain Pershing, military attaché of the American 
legation, Tokyo. 
