pellagra

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• So you think a lot of what they called pellagra might a been something else. Oral History Interview with Letha Ann Sloan Osteen, June 8, 1979. Interview H-0254. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
• Further, he supposed that, just as all the constituents of proteins (i.e. amino acids) belong to the same chemical class, so would the organic trace nutrients whose deficiencies were being envisioned as the causes of diseases such as pellagra and scurvy, in addition to beriberi. The Nobel Prize and the Discovery of Vitamins
• There, in the camp, he almost died of hunger, developed dystrophy and pellagra, and almost lost his central vision.
• Deficiency leads to pellagra, a condition characterized by dermatitis, diarrhea and certain mental health problems.
• Likewise in pellagra the gastro-intestinal symptoms are responsive. George R. Minot - Nobel Lecture
• Do you ever remember people having this disease they call pellagra? Oral History Interview with Alice Grogan Hardin, May 2, 1980. Interview H-0248. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
• The severe symptoms, depression, dermatitis and diarrhea, are associated with the condition known as pellagra.
• The dumping - grounds have become death camps in which not only cholera and typhoid, but other diseases - gastro - enteritis, poliomyelitis, tuberculosis, malaria, as well as diseases of starvation, such as kwashiorkor, marasmus and pellagra - flourish. Triumphs' Part 2 - Health, Welfare and the Family
• Severe deficiency of vitamin B - 6 may lead to pellagra, a neurological illness with features of dementia.
• We now know that a niacin or tryptophan deficiency causes pellagra.