CLIMATIC TREATMENT OF PELLAGRA
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Observations on the Treatment of Pellagra.
During the past few years great interest has centered in the etiology and treatment of pellagra. The disease was first recognized in 1735 by Casal (1), a Spanish physician, who believed that diet was a contributing factor in its development. Since that time, many theories (2, 3, 4) have been advanced to explain its cause but at present only two of them are widely recognized: pellagra may be due...
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Pellagra is a disease with a considerable historical background. It was mentioned first in the seventeenth century as occurring in Spain and in 1735 it was described accurately by Gasper Casal. His book was not, however, published until 1762. Figure 1 is a reproduction from this book (Major, 1932). Meanwhile M. Thiery described the disease in the Journal de Medecine, Chirurgiv et Pharmacie (Par...
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Pellagra was first described in the 18th century as an epidemic in the poverty-stricken Spanish countryside by Gaspar Casal. Pellagra did not appear in the United States until the turn of the 20th century. It then ravaged the Southern United States and was not eliminated until the 1940s. This short report will redact the descriptions of pellagra in two early textbooks of dermatology. The first,...
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can physican, who has closely studied the disease on the continent of Europe as well as in the West and with a close acquaintance with the scattered literature of the subject. He describes the history and prevalence of t,he disease in Spain, Italy, Egypt and America, and points out that it is at present a much more acute disease in the last mentioned country. A full clinical description of the ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the American Medical Association
سال: 1910
ISSN: 0002-9955
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1910.04330110040012