uals? The Philippine Journal of Science 
The vitamine of rice polishings possesses specific and prompt 
curative properties far beyond those of any other known sub- 
stance. Unfortunately its cost at present prohibits its general 
use among the poorer classes, who are the chief sufferers from 
beriberi. 
As a whole, our observations on the 27 cases recorded in 
this paper in their bearing on the etiology of beriberi are in 
accord with the broad proposition that the disease, in a prac- 
tical sense at least, results primarily from a poor diet, defi- 
cient more particularly in specific substances of the nature of 
Funk’s vitamine. The fact that so-called beriberi cases of what- 
ever type respond in a greater or less degree to the same treat- 
ment would indicate that they are in reality one and the same 
disease. We believe that practically all the neuritis which is 
very prevalent among Filipinos, except, of course, a compara- 
tively small percentage of cases for which some other well- 
known cause is assignable, may safely be regarded as beriberi. 
In conclusion, we are happy to have this opportunity to thank 
the physicians whose names have been mentioned above, as 
well as officials of the Bureau of Health and the Liga Nacional 
for their very kind coéperation in securing and observing cases. 
