Word: pellagra
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vitamin A prevents the eye disease xerophthalmania; Vitamin B3 prevents beriberi in man and polyneuritis in fowl; Vitamin B2 prevents pellagra; Vitamin C prevents scurvy; Vitamin D prevents rickets; Vitamin E prevents sterility...
Died. Dr. Joseph Goldberger, 54, of the U. S. Public Health Service, discoverer of "vitamin PP" as a preventive of pellagra (disease resulting from unbalanced diet); of hypernephroma, a malignant growth on the kidneys resembling cancer; in the Naval Hospital, Washington, D. C. A martyr to science, he had within 15 years investigated and contracted the following diseases: typhus fever (Mexico City), yellow fever (New Orleans), bone-breaking fever (Brownsville...
...each county are medical units financed jointly by the states, the counties, the Rockefeller Foundation, the U. S. Public Health Service. The Red Cross furnishes medical supplies. So vigorously have these units worked that, save in a few counties, the flood-area people now have less typhoid, malaria, pellagra, etc., than in normal non-flood years...
...They have not been isolated. They cannot be seen or weighed. They came to light only when it was found that diets apparently perfectly balanced according to pre-existent information did not provide proper nourishment in some cases arid even brought on certain "; deficiency "; diseases (e. g., scurvy, beriberi, pellagra). There are three major vitamins (Fat-soluble A, Water-soluble B, Water-soluble C), and all three must be present in any correct diet. Plenty of milk and oranges or tomatoes will furnish all of them. But they are not units of measurement and have in no way abolished...