Deficiency diseases such as pellagra and beriberi were diagnosed. Most common among the diseases were malaria, beriberi and dysentery. Lack of thiamin later in life causes the disease known as beriberi. Many people with beriberi can be treated with thiamine alone. Wernicke encephalopathy and Korsakoff syndrome are forms of dry beriberi. This in turn causes beriberi, a disease normally linked to nutritional deficiency. Dry beriberi causes wasting and partial paralysis resulting from damaged peripheral nerves. Apart from the congenital diseases, Meiji also sufferred from beriberi and could barely walk. Wet beriberi affects the heart and circulatory system. A severe and chronic form is known as beriberi. Dry beriberi is also known as cerebral beriberi. An extreme weight-loss diet can, rarely, induce a famine-like state and the accompanying beriberi. In 1999, an outbreak of beriberi occurred in a detention center in Taiwan. In 1897, Christiaan Eijkman worked with natives of Java, who also suffered from beriberi. It may present as either wet or dry beriberi.