TY - BOOK AU - Bryan,Charles S. ED - Project Muse, ED - Project Muse. TI - Asylum doctor: James Woods Babcock and the red plague of pellagra SN - 9781611174915 AV - RC627.P44 B793 2014 U1 - 616.393 23 PY - 2014/// CY - Baltimore, Maryland PB - Project Muse KW - Babcock, James Woods, KW - Pellagra KW - United States KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Electronic books KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - 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 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9781611174915/ ER -