1755 THIÉRY, François [THIERRY] (1719 – )
Description d’une maladie appelée mal de la rosa.
Thiérry wrote an account of pellagra from what he had seen or heard of Casal’s cases. His work antedates that of Casal in date of publication but is not a first-hand description. English translation in No. 2241.
GMN 3749 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4570
1762 CASAL JULIÁN, Gaspar (1680 – 1759)
Historia natural, y medica de el Principado de Asturias.
The first recognizable description of pellagra is included on pp. 327-60 of this book, which was written in 1735 but not published until 1762, after the writer’s death. He called the disease mal de la rosa. Reprinted,…
GMN 1771 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/3318
1771 FRAPOLLI, Francesco ( – 1773)
Animadversiones in morbum, vulgo pellagram.
In Frapolli’s careful description of pellagra, the disease was first given its present name. This book is also the first Italian account of the malady. Partial English translation in No. 2241.
GMN 3751 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4583
1786 –1789 STRAMBIO, Gaetano (1752 – 1831)
De pellagra. 3 vols.
By 1776, pellagra had attained serious proportions in Italy; Strambio was placed in charge of a hospital for the treatment of pellagrins, and he left an important account of the disease. He and Casal y Julian (No. 375…
GMN 3752 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4590
1866 ROUSSEL, Jean Baptiste Victor Théophile (1816 – 1903)
Traité de la pellagre et des pseudo-pellagres.
Roussel was awarded a prize of 5,000 francs for this work.
GMN 3753 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4593
1869 LOMBROSO, Cesare (1836 – 1909)
Studii clinici ed esperimentali sulla natura, causa e terapia della pellagra.
Lombroso upheld the maize theory of the origin of pellagra. He believed that the symptoms were caused by a toxin which developed in deteriorated maize. Reprinted from Riv. clin. Bologna, 1869, 8, 289-314, 321-44.
GMN 3754 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4596
1914 GOLDBERGER, Joseph (1874 – 1929); ET AL
The treatment and prevention of pellagra.
With C. H. Waring and D. G. Willets. A collection of Goldberger’s most important papers with a list of his publications appeared in 1964.
GMN 3755 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4598
1919 HARRIS, Henry Fauntleroy (1867 – 1926)
Pellagra.
GMN 3756 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4600
1920 GOLDBERGER, Joseph (1874 – 1929); WHEELER, George Alexander (1885 – 1981)
The experimental production of pellagra in human subjects by means of diet.
Goldberger was born in Central Europe in poor circumstances. He migrated to America, and following attendance at a lecture by Austin Flint, decided to study medicine. He entered the U. S. Public Health Service in 1899…
GMN 3757 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4603
1926 GOLDBERGER, Joseph (1874 – 1929); ET AL
A further study of butter, fresh beef, and yeast as pellagra preventives, with consideration of the relation of factor P-P of pellagra (and black tongue of dogs) to vitamin B.
Anti-pellagra vitamin (B2, riboflavine). With G. A. Wheeler, R. D. Lillie, and L. M. Rogers.
GMN 1057 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/656
1926 GOLDBERGER, Joseph (1874 – 1929); WHEELER, George Alexander (1885 – 1981)
A further study of butter, fresh beef, and yeast as pellagra preventatives, with consideration of the relation of factor P-P of pellagra (and black tongue of dogs) to vitamin B.
Anti-pellagra vitamin. With G. A. Wheeler, R. D. Lillie, and L. M. Rogers.
GMN 3758 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4606
1935 WILLIAMS, Cicely Delphine (1893 – 1992)
Kwashiorkor. A nutritional disease of children associated with a maize diet.
First accurate description. “Kwashiorkor” was the local name in Ghana for a nutritional disease of children, associated with a maize diet. The first modern account was probably that of L. Normet in Bull. Soc. Path. ex…
GMN 3759 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4609
1937 KOEHN, Carl James (1910 – 1989); ELVEHJEM, Conrad Arnold (1901 – 1962)
Further studies on the concentration of the antipellagra factor.
Chicken pellagra factor.
GMN 1076 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/773
1938 ELVEHJEM, Conrad Arnold (1901 – 1962); ET AL
The isolation and identification of the anti-black tongue factor.
Isolation of nicotinic acid, the pellagra-preventing factor (Vitamin B3). With R. J. Madden, F. N. Strong, and D. W. Woolley.
GMN 1077 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/779
2003 GOLDBERGER, Joseph (1874 – 1929); KRAUT, Alan M. (1946 – )
Goldberger's war: The life and work of a public health crusader.
GMN 8218 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10394
