It was never sufficient to keep us in health and very soon we contracted beriberi and other illnesses.    From LearnThat.org.  [yourdictionary.com]

And because they didn't have vitamin B, they were developing beriberi, which is a hideous disease.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II's Most Dramatic Mission] Reference

Fed little more than rice mush and wracked with diseases such as beriberi, people in the camps were always thinking about food, Flynn said.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Union - All Categories] Reference

Patients with dry beriberi were usually very thin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blood Brothers]

Mr. SIDES: They died of dysentery, malaria, beriberi.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II's Most Dramatic Mission] Reference

In those days diagnosis of beriberi was clearly taboo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christiaan Eijkman - Nobel Lecture] Reference

Ward Six housed the sightless, the men blinded by beriberi.    From Wordnik.com.  [King Rat]

Both “wet” and “dry” beriberi cases were prevalent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blood Brothers]

Most everyone had either wet or dry beriberi, or a few both.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blood Brothers]

In the adults it brings beriberi, from which they die quickly.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Woman's Impression of the Philippines] Reference

Cases of beriberi and other avitamine diseases are increasing.    From Wordnik.com.  [A MAN SENT FROM GOD] Reference

Could be beriberi, vascular disease or frost bite, or all three.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blood Brothers]

The nurses themselves were very sick with beriberi and pellagra.    From Wordnik.com.  [We Band of Angels:; The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese] Reference

Dry beriberi, you don't swell up, but it -- you almost can't walk.    From Wordnik.com.  [We Band of Angels:; The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese] Reference

"The salt is for beriberi," the voice said, and the door banged shut.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moe, Thomas N.] Reference

I have severe peripheral neuropathy in both legs as a residual of beriberi.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warner, James H.] Reference

Straits Settlements and the Federated Malay States, namely that beriberi.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christiaan Eijkman - Nobel Lecture] Reference

'The Chicken Farm Game' and also get on board with Eijkman to fight beriberi!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nobel Prize and the Discovery of Vitamins] Reference

There's a wet beriberi where your limbs swell up enormously and you can't move.    From Wordnik.com.  [We Band of Angels:; The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese] Reference

Another death, Smith - beriberi, starvation, mental depression or what-have-you.    From Wordnik.com.  [A MAN SENT FROM GOD] Reference

Diseases like beriberi, scurvy, rickets, etc. are caused by vitamin deficiencies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diet for Fat Loss Program] Reference

I thought for a moment: Does he mean the salt will give me beriberi or prevent it?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moe, Thomas N.] Reference

These latter symptoms rapidly come to the fore, and we then speak of "wet beriberi".    From Wordnik.com.  [Christiaan Eijkman - Nobel Lecture] Reference

My skin was rough and scaly — pellagra; my feet were numb and swollen — beriberi.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blood Brothers]

Some of the common diseases among the prisoners were malaria, beriberi, and diarrhea.    From Wordnik.com.  [DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE REPORT] Reference

AND ROY, C.: Anti-beriberi vitamine and antiscorbutic property of sun dried vegetables.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vitamine Manual] Reference

Allegedly, the POW later contracted beriberi and is reported to have died in June 1971.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sparks, Donald L.] Reference

His comrades suffered from frostbite, dysentery, beriberi, hepatitis and night blindness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Torture And Torment] Reference

Did Mr. Durbin say that some of the Islamo-fascist prisoners are suffering from beriberi?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warner, James H.] Reference

It was still unproven, of course, that the chicken disease was a model for human beriberi.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nobel Prize and the Discovery of Vitamins] Reference

FUNK, C., and DUBIN, H. E.: A test for anti-beriberi vitamine and its practical application.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vitamine Manual] Reference

Brookens was suffering from dysentery and beriberi from which he never completely recovered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Utecht, Richard W.] Reference

An army doctor of that time mentions that at his hospital 18 soldier died of beriberi on one day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christiaan Eijkman - Nobel Lecture] Reference

Like anemia, beriberi is most often seen in women from puberty to menopause, and in their children.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 16] Reference

The swellings and the deaths without obvious cause described by the early commentators may have resulted from beriberi.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699] Reference

At times baseball and volleyball were attempted, but beriberi definitely limited any enthusiasm and the games died out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blood Brothers]

Another dietary disease troubling the colonists but, unlike beriberi, known by name and at times properly treated, was scurvy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699] Reference

beriberi: Wet beriberi cases were bloated with edema usually beginning in the feet and gradually progressing upward to the head.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blood Brothers]

In the South, again, even worst conditions because of the lack of fruit and vegetables altogether, beriberi, scurvy type of diseases.    From Wordnik.com.  [Honor Bound: American Prisoners of War in Southeast Asia, 1961-1973] Reference

The length of the voyage was beginning to tell: sand mixed with soda was used instead of soap; dysentery and beriberi began to appear.    From Wordnik.com.  [Castles of Steel]