"An Epidemic of Acute Pellagra"
Journal article
By: George H. Searcy
Date: July 6, 1907
Source: Searcy, George H. "An Epidemic of Acute Pellagra." Journal of the American Medical Association, July 6, 1907, 37–38.
About the Author: George H. Searcy (1871–1947) received his doctorate in medicine from the University of Pittsburgh in 1895. His interest in the diseases of poverty led him to study patients at the Mount Vernon Insane Hospital, an asylum for blacks in Alabama, where he attributed the incidence of pellagra to a microbe in corn. Although this idea was wrong, it focused attention on corn, a culprit in the disease.
Introduction
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