It is obvious then that the failure of the milk to cure beri-beri in a given case might be due to this cause and not to lack of identity of the curative with the growth factor.
Of these predicted types beri-beri was the only one to be established in 1913.
This set of symptoms he called polyneuritis and this term is now commonly used to signify a beri-beri in experimental animals.
We are today actually no nearer the goal of identification than we were in 1911 when Funk published his studies on the beri-beri curing type.
Others are beginning to doubt the identity of the rat growth promoter and the beri-beri curing complexes and feel that the "B" itself may be the name of a group instead of a single entity.
We see that beri-beri then was responsible for Funk's adding to our chemical entities a new member but it does not yet appear why this entity concerns our normal nutrition.
They have the same customs as the Beri Chettis, but are not particular in observing the rule which forbids the eating of flesh.
The principal occupation of the Viramushtis is begging fromBeri Chettis, Devangas, Komatis, and washermen.
In the city of Madras, the Malighai Chettis cannot, like other Beri Chettis, vote or receive votes at elections or meetings of the Kandasami temple.
The Malas will not eat food prepared or touched by Kamsalas, Medaras, Madigas, Beri Chettis, Boyas, or Bhatrazus.
Their descendants are still marked men, who depend upon Beri Chettis for their subsistence.
On the day fixed for the marriage, all the Beri families left the place, after a male black dog had been tied to the milk-post of the marriage pandal (booth).
This was agreed to, and the Beri Chettis were alone successful.
To secure the necessary money, they became slaves to a rich Beri woman.
A Viramushti (caste beggar of the Beri Chettis and Komatis) killed the king's horse and elephant.
Komatis could not pay, and they were therefore obliged to enslave themselves to a Beri Chetti woman, who paid the fine.
For example, the Beri Chettis may not plant in their back-yards Moringa pterygosperma, Dolichos Lablab, or a red variety of Amarantus.
The Beri Chettis and Komatis should not do business together.
When the Komatis declined to agree to the match, the king began to persecute them, and those Komatis who left the country out of fear were called Beri or Bediri (fear) Chettis.
Most of the Beri Chettis are meat-eaters, but some profess to be vegetarians.
The legend of the Beri Chettis, as given by Mr. H.
A natural surmise is that it is due to some fungoid growth affecting grain, such as rice, maize or some other food stuff commonly used in the localities where beri-beri is prevalent, and among sailors.
Having had much experience of beri-beri in Sarawak, he associates it with the eating of mouldy rice, a germ in the fungus constituting the poison.
Beri-beri was constantly prevalent among the sailors until 1884, when the dietary was changed.
Four weeks previously an epidemic of beri-beri had started with a mortality of one or two every day.
Several men here had been to New Guinea and they expressed no desire to return, because there had been much work, and much beri-beri from which some of their comrades had died.
In the small prison of Sampit, which is built of iron-wood, the mortality from beri-beri among the inmates was appalling.
Would that I had not played, beri amukiririkirikara or, beri amukirirujerara I also add a Guaicuri Lord's Prayer with literal translation.
It was out of the question for me to attempt such a journey, the attack of beri-beri in my right leg making it almost impossible for me to stand up.
In fact, atrophy set in by degrees--one of the characteristics of beri-beri being that after a time you feel no pain at all.
Beri-beri commenced to develop in my right foot, and added to my other trials.
The attack of beri-beri from which I had been suffering was gradually passing away, my right foot, by the time I reached Lima, having slowly got back almost to its normal size, although my toes were still atrophied.
It is well known that there is no better cure for beri-beri than sea air.
The last lines of the fragment which I have, are Tymor tymhestyl Tymhestyl dymor Y beri rhestr rhac rhiallu.
Ef a ddichon hyn beri i'n gwlad agor ei llygaid, a defnyddio yn well rhagllaw yr hen ysgrifenadau sydd heb fyned ar goll.
Gobeithio i cawn ni weled y trysor mawrwerthiog yma ar gyhoedd; i beri gosteg, ac i dorri rhwysg y cyfryw oganwyr ein hen hanesion.
Hence the proverb that the Kammalans and the Beri Chettis are one.
One pregnant Kammalan woman, however, took refuge in the house of a Beri Chetti, and escaped decapitation by being passed off as his daughter.
There is a close connection between the Kammalans and Acharapakam Chettis, who are a section of the Beri Chetti caste.
Kaikolan Dasis, when passing through a Kammalan street, stop dancing, and they will not salute Kammalans orBeri Chettis.
Kandasami temple, which every other Beri Chetti has a right to.
In connection with the above story, it may be noted that, though ordinarily two different castes do not live in the same house, yet Beri Chettis and Kammalans so live together.
Though the Kaikolans are considered to belong to the left-hand faction, Dasis, except those who are specially engaged by the Beri Chettis and Kammalans, are placed in the right-hand faction.
Kammalans and Acharapakam Chettis interdine; both bury their dead in a sitting posture; and the tali (marriage badge) used by both is alike in size and make, and unlike that used by the generality of the Beri Chetti caste.
According to one story of the origin of the Kammalans, they are the descendants of the issue of a Brahman and a Beri Chetti woman.
The Acharapakam Chettis are known as Malighe Chettis, and are considered to be the descendants of those Beri Chettis who brought up the Kammalan children, and intermarried with them.
An annual festival is held in honour of Pachaiamman and Mannarswami, in which theBeri Chettis take a prominent part.
Paraiyans similarly will not eat in the houses of Beri Chettis, who were of the left-hand faction.
Mannarswami is worshipped mainly by Pallis and Beri Chettis.
The best known of them are the Beri Chettis, the Nagarattu Chettis, the Kasukkar Chettis, and the Nattukottai Chettis.
Of these, the Beri and Nattukottai Chettis are dealt with in special articles.
Beri-beri was common among the occupants of jails, lighthouses and other government institutions, as well as in certain garrisoned towns like Balabac.
On certain rivers, in the Matto Grosso province of Brazil, or in Bolivian territory, the beri-beri patients have some chance of recovery.
The beri-beri still remains a puzzling malady from which no recoveries have yet been reported, at least not on the Amazon.
Asgard is surrounded by a river belt covered with vaferflames, which cannot be crossed unless one has that single steed which um myrckvan beri visan vafrloga, and this belongs to the Asas.
When Skirner is to go on Frey's journey of courtship to Gerd, he asks for that purpose mar thann er mic um myrckvan beri visan vafrloga, and is allowed to ride it on and for the journey (Skirn.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "beri" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
