BookCharles S. Bryan.
Summary: Dr. James Woods Babcock, superintendent of the South Carolina State Hospital for the Insane from 1891 to 1914, led the American response to pellagra, producing the first English-language treatise on the disease and organizing the meetings of the National Association for the Study of Pellagra.
Contents:
Jimmie
Superintendent
Founder of the movement
How bad it was
Sambon's obsession
So near, so far
A plain farmer's daughter
The blind men of Hindustan
Perspective: asylum doctor
Appendix I. Mortality and full recoveries (as percentages of patients treated) by race, South Carolina State Hospital for the Insane, 1891-1914
Appendix 2. Parallels in the histories of beriberi and pellagra
Appendix 3. A chronology of pellagra and niacin
Appendix 4. Summary of the four major pellagra conferences held at the South Carolina State Hospital for the Insane, 1908-1915.
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