منابع مشابه
Pellagra
Pellagra is a disease with a considerable historical background. It was mentioned first in the seventeenth century as occurring in Spain and in 1735 it was described accurately by Gasper Casal. His book was not, however, published until 1762. Figure 1 is a reproduction from this book (Major, 1932). Meanwhile M. Thiery described the disease in the Journal de Medecine, Chirurgiv et Pharmacie (Par...
متن کاملPellagra.
Pellagra was first described in the 18th century as an epidemic in the poverty-stricken Spanish countryside by Gaspar Casal. Pellagra did not appear in the United States until the turn of the 20th century. It then ravaged the Southern United States and was not eliminated until the 1940s. This short report will redact the descriptions of pellagra in two early textbooks of dermatology. The first,...
متن کاملPellagra
can physican, who has closely studied the disease on the continent of Europe as well as in the West and with a close acquaintance with the scattered literature of the subject. He describes the history and prevalence of t,he disease in Spain, Italy, Egypt and America, and points out that it is at present a much more acute disease in the last mentioned country. A full clinical description of the ...
متن کاملA Case of Pellagra
a month or so and was able to attend to his work on the farm, but in a short time a second attack of the same complaints occurred, which confined him to bed, as he was unable to walk at all. He also developed glossitis, which prevented him from eating his usual diet. On admission.?There was a well-marked butterflyshaped pigmented area, dark brown or almost black, on his face, the dorsum of both...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the American Medical Association
سال: 1915
ISSN: 0002-9955
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1915.02580240063027