Asylum Doctor : James Woods Babcock and the Red Plague of Pellagra /
During the early twentieth century thousands of Americans died of pellagra before the cause--vitamin B3 deficiency--was identified. Credit for ending the scourge is usually given to Dr. Joseph Goldberger of the U.S. Public Health Service, who proved the case for dietary deficiency during 1914-1915 a...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2014
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface
- Prologue
- Jimmie
- Superintendent
- Founder of the Movement
- How Bad It Was
- Sambon's Obsession
- So Near, So Far
- A Plain Farmer's Daughter
- The Blind Men of Hindustan
- Appendix 1. Mortality and Full Recoveries (as Percentages of Patients Treated) by Race, South Carolina State Hospital for the Insane, 1891-1914
- Appendix 2. Parallels in the Histories of Beriberi and Pellagra
- Appendix 3. A Chronology of Pellagra and Niacin
- Appendix 4. Summary of the Four Major Pellagra Conferences held at the South Carolina State Hospital for the Insane, 1908-1915
- Notes for Researchers
- Abbreviations Used in Notes
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.