Pellagra

Pellagra became endemic in Europe, and then endemic in the American South, where corn meal was the major food source in the poor population.

Dan Agin: Reality Check: National Health Care is National Security 2009

Pellagra ran rampant in most of the nation as the result of the lack of fresh vegetables in the winter.

OF ELEPHANTS AND BLUE DOGS 2009

Pellagra has always been a disease of poverty, a complicated disease whose simple prevention would not be evident for two hundred years after it first appeared in Europe.

Dan Agin: Reality Check: National Health Care is National Security 2009

Pellagra was a regional phenomenon in the United States, occurring primarily in the rural South.

Feb. 4, 1915: Improve Your Diet and Live Better, Longer 2008

Pellagra had the reputation of being associated with the consumption of maize (called corn in America) and it had been thought that batches of maize meal that had become mouldy and toxic could be responsible, but by 1914 in the

The Nobel Prize and the Discovery of Vitamins 2004

Pellagra - a disease caused by too little niacin in the diet - is endemic among certain sorghum eaters (as it is among some maize eaters).

7. Sorghum 1996

Pellagra is a form of malnutrition that affects the skin and sometimes the digestive and nervous systems.

Chapter 22 1993

Pellagra: Pellagra was common, manifest by conjunctivitis, glossitis, amblyopia, angular stomatitis, geographic tongues (often with deep grooves and severe sensitivity), and scrotal dermatitis of varying degrees including sloughing.

Blood Brothers Jacobs, Col Eugene 1985

Pellagra was the dietary disease and the Negroes and whites would break out in these white splotches.

Oral History Interview with Virginia Foster Durr, March 13, 14, 15, 1975. Interview G-0023-1. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1975

Pellagra, a disease once endemic in Mediterranean lands and in our own South, was characterized by dementia as one of the symptoms.

The Human Brain Asimov, Isaac 1963