In 1915, he conducted experiments on inmates at a Mississippi prison, who volunteered for the study in exchange for a pardon. Because it was a farm prison, its inmates had a fairly balanced diet.

In 1915, a disease called pellagra was running rampant in the U.S., particularly in the South. It was characterized by the four D’s: dermatitis, diarrhea, dementia and death. It was concentrated among ...

Over 1,000,000 families in the rural South eat nothing but salt pork, corn meal and molasses. Their members are frequent victims of that painful deficiency disease, pellagra, with its attendant ...

When the American Chemical Society meets at Atlanta April 7, Vitamin G will be given prime position on the program. Most interested will be the poor of the South who suffer from pellagra, the disease ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In 1914 the Surgeon General asked ...