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.

• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
• John Nesbitt
• Stephen McNally
• Dorothy Morris
• Emmett Vogan