This MGM John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short dramatizes how the work of Dutch physician Christiaan Eijkman, who searched for a cure for beri-beri on the island of Java in the 1890s, led to the discovery of vitamins.
John Nesbitt
as Narrator (voice)
Stephen McNally
as Dr. Christiaan Eijkman
Dorothy Morris
as Secretary (uncredited)
Emmett Vogan
as Scientist (uncredited)
