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A treatise on pellagra, for the general practitioner / by Wood, Edward Jenner,1878-;
Subjects: Pellagra.; Old State Library Collection.;
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A plague of corn; the social history of pellagra / by Roe, Daphne A.,1923-(CARDINAL)137703;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Pellagra; Social history.;
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Food supply and pellagra incidence in 73 South Carolina farm families / by Stiebeling, Hazel K.(Hazel Katherine),1896-1989.(CARDINAL)314585; Munsell, Hazel E.(Hazel Edith),1891-1989.(CARDINAL)314584;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 34-35).
Subjects: Pellagra.; Deficiency diseases;
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The butterfly caste: a social history of pellagra in the South / by Etheridge, Elizabeth W.(CARDINAL)185413;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Pellagra; Malnutrition.;
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Asylum doctor : James Woods Babcock and the red plague of pellagra / by Bryan, Charles S.,author.(CARDINAL)324960;
Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.
Subjects: Biographies.; Babcock, James Woods, 1856-1922.; South Carolina State Hospital for Insane.; Pellagra.; Mental health services; Psychiatric hospitals;
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Red madness : how a medical mystery changed what we eat / by Jarrow, Gail,author.(CARDINAL)758490;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 168-183) and index.Glove, boot, necklace, and butterfly -- Baffled by pellagra -- Tackling the mystery -- Infection! -- Goldberger on the case -- The 3-M diet -- The filth parties -- The hidden factor -- Conquered -- Pellagra frequently asked questions.One hundred years ago, a mysterious and alarming illness spread across America's South, striking tens of thousands of victims. No one knew what caused it or how to treat it. People were left weak, disfigured, insane, and in some cases, dead. Award winning science and history writer Gail Jarrow tracks this disease, commonly known as pellagra, and highlights how doctors, scientists, and public health officials finally defeated it. Illustrated with 100 archival photographs, includes stories about real life pellagra victims and accounts of scientific investigations.990LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Young adult literature.; Biographies.; United States. Public Health Service; Epidemics; Malnutrition.; Pellagra; Physicians; Public health;
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A mess of greens : Southern gender and Southern food / by Engelhardt, Elizabeth S. D.(Elizabeth Sanders Delwiche),1969-(CARDINAL)307771;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-257) and index.Whose food, when, and why?: longing for corn and beans -- Moonshine: drawing a bead on Southern food and gender -- Biscuits and cornbread: race, class, and gender politics of women baking bread -- Canning tomatoes: growing "better and more perfect women" -- Will work for food: mill work, pellagra, and gendered consumption -- Cookbooks and curb markets: wild messes of Southern food and gender -- Market bulletins: writing the mess of greens together.
Subjects: Food habits; Food; Cooking, American; Women; Women.; Womyn.;
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Plagues & poxes : the impact of human history on epidemic disease / by Bollet, Alfred J.(CARDINAL)304465;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Bubonic plague: the prototype of pandemic disasters -- The "little flies" that brought death, part 1: malaria or the burning ague -- The "little flies" that brought death, part 2: yellow fever -- Syphilis: the great pox -- The smallpox -- Cholera and the worldwide plagues of the nineteenth century -- The great influenza pandemic of 1918-1919: President Woodrow Wilson and the BlitzkatarrhPoliomyelitis: why did Franklin Delano Roosevelt get infantile paralysis as an adult? -- Beriberi: an epidemic affecting rice-eaters -- The pellagra epidemics: the three M's produce the four D's -- Scurvy: the purpura nautica -- Dying for a cigar? how about a cigarette?: smoking and epidemic cancer: a story of two presidents and a prince -- Rickets: the English disease -- Gout: the disease of good living -- Anthrax: from woolsorter's disease to terrorism -- Botulism: from bad food to terrorism -- The SARS epidemic: a new disease retraces the experience with older diseases.
Subjects: Epidemiology;
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C. Vann Woodward : America's historian / by Cobb, James C.(James Charles),1947-author.(CARDINAL)161410;
Includes bibliographical references and index.The legendary historian -- Another Mark Twain if he applied himself: the superintendent's son spreads his wings -- A Southern historian I must be -- or somehow become: a budding biographer makes hard choices -- History, I find, is a collection of facts: pursuing the "cursed degree" in Chapel Hill -- A better read than Huxley's new novel: telling the Tom Watson story -- A chance to have my say about the period: the origins of "Origins" -- Juleps for the few and pellagra for the crew: reckoning with the redeemer -- New South legacy -- Cordially invited to be absent: integrating the Southern Historical Association -- A fundamental attack upon the prevailing view: launching "The strange career of Jim Crow" -- Wrong in all its major parts: "Strange career" returns to Earth -- A basis for criticizing the American legend: Southern history as both asset and burden -- Tortured for months: the agony of moving to Yale -- Therapist of the public mind: the strange career of C. Vann Woodward -- I mean to do all I can: the mentor flexes his muscles -- An ever more conservative old liberal: moving to the right or standing fast? -- I do not see how I could have been misunderstood: sorting out the Aptheker debacle -- The masterpiece that became a hoax (and won a Pulitzer): rewriting Mary Chesnut's diary -- Still more that I can do: the satisfactions of staying the course -- America's historian."With an epic career that spanned two-thirds of the twentieth century, C. Vann Woodward (1908-1999) was a historian of singular importance. A brilliant writer, his work captivated both academic and public audiences. He also figured prominently in the major intellectual conflicts between left and right during the last half of the twentieth century, although his unwavering commitment to free speech and racial integration that affirmed his liberalism in the 1950s struck some as emblematic of his growing conservatism by the 1990s."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Woodward, C. Vann (Comer Vann), 1908-1999.; Historians;
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Outbreak! : 50 tales of epidemics that terrorized the world / by Skwarecki, Beth,author.(CARDINAL)413944;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 244-250) and index.World takeover: malaria -- The fiery serpent: Guinea worm -- The plague of Athens: unknown disease -- Galen's plague: smallpox -- The plague of Justinian: bubonic plague -- A vicious cycle: smallpox -- Message from a sacred mountain: smallpox -- Saint Anthony's fire: ergotism -- A doomed crusade: scurvy -- The knights of Lazarus: leprosy (Hansen's disease) -- China's plague: bubonic plague -- The black death: bubonic plague -- The sweating sickness: unknown disease -- The first invaders: influenza -- The French disease: syphilis -- The dancing plague: mass psychogenic illness -- The fall of Moctezuma: smallpox -- The lost cure for scurvy: scurvy -- The king's evil: scrofula -- Squanto's backstory: unknown disease -- The first miracle cure: malaria -- The great plague of London: bubonic plague -- Scourge of a young nation's capital: yellow fever -- Peeing red: schistosomiasis -- The romantic disease: tuberculosis -- The Haitian revolution: yellow fever -- Birth of a pandemic: cholera -- Childbed fever: uterine infection -- Mapping death: cholera -- Exiled on Molokai: leprosy (Hansen's disease) -- Beat of the death-drum: measles -- Tunnel of anemia: hookworm -- Rabies loses its bite: rabies -- The Beriberi box: beriberi -- The Chinatown plague: bubonic plague -- Down by the riverside: sleeping sickness -- Typhoid Mary and friends: typhoid fever -- An unpopular discovery: pellagra -- The "Spanish" flu: influenza -- Serum by dogsled: diphtheria -- Just another horror: typhus -- The beginning of the end for polio: polio -- Breakbone fever: Dengue hemorrhagic fever -- The brain-eating amoeba: primary amebic meningoencephalitis -- The leak from compound 19: anthrax -- AIDS panic and progress: AIDS -- Mad cow spreads to humans: transmissible spongiform encephalopathy -- The locker room menace: MRSA -- The secret epidemic: SARS -- Ebola is real: ebola."Describes 50 outbreaks of disease throughout history. Also explains how and why these diseases spread and how humans tried to stop them"--
Subjects: Epidemics;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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