Word: pellagra
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Medical men have long expected widespread disease among the undernourished population of Leftist Spain. Last week their fears were realized. From half-fed, unheated Madrid came word that 40,000 inhabitants of that city of siege were suffering from pellagra, caused by malnutrition, which results in mouth and skin inflammations. Common in the U. S. South, where there is often a restricted diet of salt pork, corn meal and molasses, pellagra is caused by a lack of those vitamins found in fresh meat, milk and vegetables...
...fund, to succor stricken people in Spain, was omitted. More than 3,000,000 women and children in Loyalist territory are homeless, destitute, and hungry. Already the ravages of disease due to malnutrition have begun to appear. It is reported that at least 4,000 cases of pellagra have developed in Madrid alone. The Medical Bureau to Aid Spanish Democracy is doing what it can to mitigate the plight of these innocent victims of the war. Dr. Miller, as a humane physician, surely does not protest against that effort...
Last week the Journal of the American Medical Association printed two articles on pellagra† showing the startlingly beneficial results of a new treatment...
Nicotinic acid, a distant relative (about second cousin once removed) of tobacco's nicotine, is found in yeast, wheat germ and liver. When considerable quantities were fed to some 300 patients with pellagra, their sores healed, their cramps disappeared. Even patients who were violently insane dramatically regained their wits within 48 hours. In a few days they were able to eat pellagra-preventing foods...
...NICOTINE ACID IN THE TREATMENT OF PELLAGRA, by Dr. Clarence Nall Bogart of Forrest City, Ark.; THE TREATMENT OF SUBCLINICAL AND CLASSIC PELLAGRA, by Drs. Tom Douglas Spies, William Bennett Bean of Cincinnati, Ohio, & Dr. Robert Edwards Stone of Birmingham...