Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Frederick Gowland Hopkins

  • Christiaan Eijkman, unpolished rice, and the discovery of vitamins

    In 1883, a young Dutch physician, Christiaan Eijkman, arrived to work on the island of Java in the Dutch East Indies. Born in 1858, he took his preliminary examinations in 1875, became a student at the Military Medical School of the University of Amsterdam, and obtained his doctorate by working on the physiology of the…

  • How Britain rescued scientists from Nazi tyranny

    JMS PearceHull, England In March 1933 while visiting Vienna, William Beveridge, Director of the London School of Economics, learned that Hitler had just decreed it illegal for “non-Aryan,” mostly Jewish people to hold posts in the Civil Service. Many lawyers, doctors, and academics were deemed “undesirable” and dismissed instantly. Nazi concentration camps, mass desecration, medical…