Pellagra and mental disturbance

Mental Symptoms in Pellagra and Nicotinic Acid Deficiency

Extreme Mental and Emotional Disturbance

“triggering event.” At trial, Mr. Baze had to point to a “triggering event,” prompting a reaction that was so “enraged,” “inflamed,” or “disturbed” as to be uncontrollable, before he could present a defense under that theory. Mr. Baze may have been distraught at the ongoing feud with his wife’s family, but he could not point to a dramatic, isolated event in that conflict that could have caused ...

Pellagra

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...

Pellagra.

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,...

Pellagra

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 ...