Goldberger's volunteers were given the poor Southern diet he had seen associated with pellagra. That was the only difference. The other inmates ate the usual farm fare. Every effort was made to ...

Moreover, symptoms include dementia, diarrhea, and dermatitis, which is a general term for skin inflammation on the face, ...

The surgeon general took note of his energy and success and in 1914, appointed him to tackle the crisis of pellagra, a disease recently reaching epidemic proportions in the South. Through ...