You tell me about your foot fungus, but this is a secret?

你得了都告诉我，但是这件事你跟我保密?

The sap has also been shown to have antifungal properties and can be used to treat athlete's foot.

这种汁液还被证明具有抗真菌特性，可以用来治疗。

An example of the dangers of a restricted diet may be seen in the disease known as " beriberi" .

限制饮食危险一个例子可以在被称为“”疾中看到。

In the early years of this century, a scientist named Eijkman was trying to discover the cause of " beriberi" .

本世纪初，一位名叫艾克曼科学家试图找出“”因。

Not content with insect mind-control, some types of fungi can trouble humans, causing irritations like athlete's foot, as well as the more deadly histoplasmosis.

不满足于昆虫精神控制，型真菌会困扰人，引起等刺激，以及更致命组织胞浆菌。

He had survived pellagra in Persia, scurvy in the Malayan archipelago, leprosy in Alexandria, beriberi in Japan, bubonic plague in Madagascar, an earthquake in Sicily, and a disastrous shipwreck in the Strait of Magellan.

他在波斯患过癞，在马来亚群岛患过坏血，在亚历山大患过麻疯，在日本患过，在马达加斯加患过淋巴腺鼠疫，在西西里碰到过地震，在麦哲伦海峡遇到过牺牲惨重轮船失事。

He began to consider the possibility that eating unpolished rice somehow prevented or cured " beriberi" -even that a lack of some element in the husk might be the cause of the disease.

他开始考虑吃未精米可能性，以种方式预防或治愈“”——即使稻壳中缺乏种元素也可能是导致这种疾原因。

The element needed to prevent " beriberi" was shortly afterwards isolated from rice husks and is now known as vitamin B. Nowadays, this terrible disease is much less common thanks to our know-edge of vitamins.

不久之后，人们从稻壳中分离出了预防“”所需元素，现在被称为维生素 B。如今，由于我们对维生素了解，这种可怕疾已不再常见。