Asylum doctor
Bryan, Charles S.,
Asylum doctor James Woods Babcock and the red plague of pellagra / [electronic resource] : Charles S. Bryan. - Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2014 Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, [2014] - 1 online resource (1 PDF (xxvii, 402 pages) :) illustrations, maps, portraits - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-388) and index.
Preface -- Prologue -- 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 -- Appendix 1. 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 -- Notes for Researchers -- Abbreviations Used in Notes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
9781611174915 1611174910
Babcock, James Woods, 1856-1922.
Pellagra.
Pellagra--History--United States--20th century.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
RC627.P44 / B793 2014
616.393
Asylum doctor James Woods Babcock and the red plague of pellagra / [electronic resource] : Charles S. Bryan. - Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2014 Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, [2014] - 1 online resource (1 PDF (xxvii, 402 pages) :) illustrations, maps, portraits - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-388) and index.
Preface -- Prologue -- 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 -- Appendix 1. 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 -- Notes for Researchers -- Abbreviations Used in Notes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
9781611174915 1611174910
Babcock, James Woods, 1856-1922.
Pellagra.
Pellagra--History--United States--20th century.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
RC627.P44 / B793 2014
616.393