Word: pellagra
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Polio & Pellagra. Meanwhile, the medical school had become one of the nation's leading research centers for polio, pellagra and Rocky Mountain spotted fever. The Duke physics department bristled with such nuclear names as Henry W. Newson, wartime chief physicist at Oak Ridge, and Lothar W. Nordheim, formerly of the physics division at Oak Ridge...
Syphilis & the Common Cold. In research, P.H.S. has chalked up a notable list of firsts. Among them: discovery (1914) of the cause, cure and prevention of pellagra; identification (1925) of brucellosis (undulant fever); first use (1942) of continuous caudal anesthesia in childbirth; proof (1943) of the effectiveness of penicillin in the treatment of syphilis; demonstration (1941) that fluorides reduce tooth decay; isolation (1947) of one of the agents causing the common cold...
...spring of 1929 he was sent to the restless South. The "lint-heads" in the Tennessee and Carolina mills, ridden with pellagra, beaten down by the stretch-out, were showing signs of kicking over the belts and bobbins. Beal went to North Carolina, where he organized and directed the Gastonia strike (at the Manville-Jenckes Co.'s Loray Mill). One night there was violence, and Gastonia's Police Chief 0. F. Aderholt was killed...
...Starving. The 124 patients at the Birmingham (Ala.) Hillman Hospital were badly undernourished. They suffered from scurvy, pellagra, other starvation diseases. According to orthodox theory, their deficient diet should have ruined their teeth. But investigators found, to their surprise, that the 124 patients had only one-third as many cavities and missing teeth as well-fed people usually have...
Misconception No. 1. Prolonged drinking, he thinks, has made him an irreparable physical wreck. The fact: alcohol weakens the body, but seldom damages it permanently. Aside from certain easily remediable ailments (such as a temporarily enlarged liver, vitamin deficiency diseases-e.g., pellagra), there are few disorders traceable to drinking. Cirrhosis of the liver, one of the few which seems to have a connection, attacks only 8% of drunkards (v. 1% in the general population...