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Asylum doctor [electronic resource] : James Woods Babcock and the red plague of pellagra / Charles S. Bryan.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSE | UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2014 2015); Columbia, South Carolina : University of South Carolina Press, [2014] 2015)Description: 1 online resource (1 PDF (xxvii, 402 pages) :) illustrations, maps, portraitsISBN:
  • 9781611174915
  • 1611174910
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 616.393 23
LOC classification:
  • RC627.P44 B793 2014
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
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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.

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