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IMPORTANT DISCOVERY IN MEDICAL SCIENCE. i U. S. PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE DISCOVERS THE CAUSE AND CURE OF PELLAGRA. Announcement has been made by the Treasury department that as a result of continued research and experiments of the Public Health Service, both the cause and the cure of pellagra have been discovered, and that the spread of this dread malady, which has been increasing in the United States at a terrific rate dur ing the past few years, may now be checked and eventually eradicated. Assistant Secretary Newton, in charge of the Public Health Service, expressed great interest in the discovery and regards it as one of the most important achievements of medical science in recent years. Pellagra has been increasing alarm- r ingly throughout the United States ^ during the last eight years, and it * is estimated that 75,000 cases of the t disease will have occurred in the * United States in 1915, and of this 8 number at least 7500 will have died c before the end of the year. In many * r sections only tuberculosis and pneumonia exceed it as a cause of death. ; The final epoch-making experi- r ment of the Public Health Service v was carried out at the farm of the * Mississippi State penitentiary about , c oicht milps past of Jackson. Miss, and together with the previous t p work of the service completes the chain i& the prevention and cure of the disease. The work at the Mississippi farm has been in charge of Surgeon Joseph Goldberger and Assistant Surgeon G A Wheeler of the United States Public Health Service. \ The farm consists of 3,200 acres in the center of which is the convict camp. The final experiment was undertaken for the purpose of testing the possibility of producing pellagra in healthy human white adult males by a restricted, one-sided, mainly carbo-hydrate (cereal) diet. Of eleven convicts who volunteered - ^ j?i j ? ? * for tnis experiment six ut-vnupru a ? * typical dermatitis and mild nervous (^astro-intestinal symptoms. 1 Experts, including Dr E H Gallo- 5 g way, the Secretary of the Mississippi State Board of Health, Dr Nolan 8 Stewart, formerly superintendent of r the Mississippi State Hospital for ? the Insane at Jackson, Dr Marcus t Hause, professor of dermatology, Medical College of the University of Tennessee, Memphis, Tenn, and Dr C Martin R Engman, professor of der- C matology in the Washington Medical r School, St Louis, Mo, declare that r the disease which was produced was Q true pellagra. g Prior to the commencement of these experiments no history could be found of the occurrence of pel- r lagra on the penitentiary farm. On this farm are 75 or 80 convicts. Governor Earl Brewer offered to ( pardon twelye of the convicts who c would volunteer for the experiment. ( They were assured that they would t receive proper care throughout the experiment, and treatment should it be necessary. The diet given was bountiful and more than sufficient to sustain life. It differed from that given the other convicts merely in the absence of meats, milk, eggs, beans, peas, and similar proteid foods. In every other particular the convicts selected for the experiment were treated exactly as were t the remaining convicts. They had * the same routine work and dis- s \ cipline, the same periods of recrea- c tion and the same water to drink, t Their quarters were better than li those of the other convicts. The * diet given them consisted of bis- J] cuits, fried mush, grits and brown * gravy, syrup, corn bread, cabbage, a sweet potaroes, rice, col lards and I ?offee with sugar. All components a of the dietary were of the best quali- a ty and were properly cooked. As a preliminary, and to determine if the j snnvicts were afflicted with any c other disease, they were kept under observation from February 4 to April 9, two and a half months, on which date the one sided diet was J begun. 1 Although the occurrence of ner- J vous symptoms and gastro-intestinal 1 Cold Settled ii Lost My "if Appetite. Could Not |l|jP Sleep. Bp All Remedies Failed. ?l|l | Mr. Ch&8. Sauerbier, 1 5 Mich., a constant Friend t Family. iisturbances was noted early, it wa9 lot until September 12, or about ive months after the beginning of he restricted diet, the skin sympoms so charactistic of pellagra bejan to develop. These symptoms ire considered as typical, every pre aution being taken to make sure hat they were not caused by any ther disease. The convicts upon vhom the experiment was being nade, a9 well as twenty other connets who were selected as controls, vere kept under continuous medical urveillance. No cases of pellagra leveloped in camp excepting among hose men who were on the restrict d diet. The experimenters nave herefore drawn the conclusion that >ellagra has been caused in at least ix of the eleven volunteers as a esult of the one sided diet on which hey subsisted. /ALUE OF TAXABLE PROPERTY. ncrease of $3,728,219 over Last fear, Says Comptroller General. Comptroller General Sawyer anlounced Monday that he had receiv d the abstracts of the duplicates rom all the county Auditors. The total increase in the taxable ralue of property for the whole State amounts to $3,728,219. In a lumber of counties the total taxable iroperty is slightly less than last 'ear, and the Comptroller General tates this is due to the fact that for i number of years there have been ax executions for which no settle Cow Hides j IWA NTEDf HIGHEST CASH PRICE I + glPAID FOR EVERY HIDE I :CAN GET. BEFORE | | YOU:SELL BE SURE I | TO SEE ME. 1 jS F EPPS! enetrates immediately to the sore pot. Don't keep on suffering. Get bottle of Sloan's Liniment, use it. t means instant relief. Price 25c nd 50c. $1.00 bottles hold six times ^ much as the 25c size. The law excuses no man through ignorance. But it often lets a guilty uss slip through who knows better. Vhenever You Need a General Tonic Take Grove's The Old Standard Grove's Tasteless thill Tonic is equally valuable as a General Tonic because it contains the veil known tonic properties of QUININE ind IRON. It acts on the Liver, Drives )ut Malaria, Enriches the Blood and Builds up the Whole System. 50 cents. nent was made by the county officirs, and they have been cleared up his year, and most of the property vhich heretofore has been carried >n the Auditor's and Treasurer's luplicates a3 double entries and erors have been eliminated. The report shows that in 1914 the )roperty valuation in Williamsburg :ounty was $5,061,423 and in 1915, >4,962,420, a decrease of $99,003. Indigestion is often only indiglant love. Id Memoriam. Entered into rest at Lake City, )ctober 26, 1915, Evelyn, infant Innorhter nf Mr D H and Marion )liver, age 1 year. Interment in he Baptist cemetery at Lake City. "Another lamb, 0 Lamb of God, Behold within this quiet fold Among thy Father's sheep I lay to sleep! "A heart that never for a night did rest, Beyond its mother's breast; Lord, keep it close to Thee Lest waking it should cry and pine for Thee." A Friend. Facts For Sufferers. Pain results from injury or congestion. Be it neuralgia, rheumaism, lumbago, neuritis, toothache, prain, bruise, sore stiff muscles or vhatever pain you have yields to lloan's Liniment?brings new, fresh >Iood, dissolves the congestion, reieves the injury, the circulation is ree and your pain leaves as if by nagic. The nature of its qualities i my Stomach. ? i |gj Took | Peruna. ( Am Cured. aKjg Peruna J i|iMI A Great j T"^ 1 \ wM ^amlly Medicine. j 315 Main street, St Joseph, ! 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E-71 wjjj r a $10C Reward, $100 The readers of tills paper will be pleased to learn that there Is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure In ail it3 stages, and that Is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure Is taken Internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease. and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing Its work. The proprietors have so much faith in Its curative powers that they offer Or.e Hundred Dollars for any case that It falls to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address: F. .T. CHENEY A CO.. Toledo. O. Sold by all Druggists. 75c. Take Hall's Family Plils for constipation. ID. P. Commander 6. E. Richardson P THE PEOPLE'S MARBLE I I WORKS 1 Sumter, - S. C. 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JH If you spend a night in town and miss Pendergrass' 9| Boarding House you will regret it. Six bedrooms up fl stairs and everything com- |H I Our Restaurant is under V the management of Mrs. J. Hamlet, who will give you A-l service. Call and see her. X Pendergrass Brothers Co. Kingstree, - - S. C. H HIGH ESTER S PILLS T,It: liIAMO.NI> BEANO. a .Ladles! Ask your dru?:>t for /i\ t * h'.-ehcMer 8 Diamond Tlrnnd^^sN I'llls In !!c'! nr.d Bold nctillic^^y .?.SWM boxes, sealed with D'.ue Ribbon. V/ "i**i Toko no other. Bur of your * I / " /T hraeal 't. As'.-f tCIK-l'IlES-Tiill S C, W MAHONI> ::rt.;.NI> MLL8, for?5 ' e* /?> yenre !:ncr;a as Rest. Safest, K\ jrtiyi RelUbl# ?h S01D BY Ci&SSiSTS EVE!?; MERE M Receipt Books, Blank Boles, Mortgages and all Legal Blanks in demand, for sale at The Record office. If we have not the torrr. youwisn we can print it cn snon I IVAe JLTe JL llf DENTIST, t Lake City, S. C, j W. L. TAYLOR * DENTIST, oflkc over L>r W V Brockington" s Store, HINGSTREE, - S. 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