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SCIENTIST STATES PELLEGRA'S CAUSE AND IS FOUND WHEREVER THE PINE TREE GROWS AND NOT COMMUNICABLE. The followig communications was printed in the New York Times: I note a number of articles in The Times concerning pellagra. These articles are in error in that they are misleading as to the cause, prevention and cure of pellagra. They are further in error in that they assume to state that there is a difference of I opinion as to the cause of pellagra and that there is still doubt as to-its, real cause. If there is a threatened recrudescence of pellagra, all this is exceedingly unfair to the people of the South, and misleading to the medical profession who are called upon to treat these sufferers in the South. Again, the people of the South who suffer from pellagra are our fellowcitizens and are entitled to the best I and the truth about such an affliction. Every instinct of humanity dictates that the truth be told avid that these sufferers be relieved and their lives saved. The true cause of pellagra was worked out in the Institute of Hy giene of the University of Rome by Professors, Alessandrini and Scala. They published the results of their work in 1913-14. The writer was their collarborator in America. He translated their work and published it with the results of his American collaborator in 1916. For five years this work has been in the English language in the hands of the American profession. This research is final. It is based upon the very best scientific findings. There is no further to seek for the cause and prevention of pellagra. The treatment is a success, but it does not preclude uwicr iucvuvuo. Pellagra is an endemic and not an epidemic disease. It is a chronic acid intoxication and not infectious or communicable in any sense. It is not hereditary. Pellagra is essentially a disease of a fixed agricultural population living upon an eroded and exhausted soil of determinate geologic origin. Pellagra has a definite geological-geographical distribution. It has no relation to diet, labor, domicile or sanitary environment Pellagra is caused by drinking soft I Dor Ian sal mi ofi m; Ifu as c< I The Underse I Store f Vi > water from a clay soil. < Pellagra is prevented by drinking i i hard water whose "hardness" is dye i i to the presence of the carbonates of j calcium and magnesium. ] Pellagra is cured by the hypodermic administration of a 10 per cent I solution of sodium citrate. Give one | cubic centimeter daily for fifteen to J thirty days, according to the severity ol the case, then on alternate days } for as long a time. , These measures are so simple, so , exact, so scientific, so successful, so 1 cheap, that they do not meet the ap- ( proval of the Public Health Service. They would not require an appropri ation of $15,000 at this time. A lit tie newspaj>er publicity would inform ( the people of the endemic area, j These people would speedily get well, , and there would be no more need of , propaganda. I Pellagra in the United States is , prevalent in the regions of the Atlan- ( tic Coastal Plain, the Piedmont Pla-1 teau, the Gulf Coastal Plain, the Ashland Plateau, certain inland regions on the fianks of the Ozarks, Boston, Oachita, Arbuckle and Wiciiita mountains and where the soils are derived from the shales of the Pennsylvania * ~ 1 1 ~ "IfA ArtAOcJ ollrr , StriCS. X~?llciglcl id aidu V/Vtaciviiuuj I found in northern states covered by glacial drift from the great Precambrain Shield around Hudson's bay. Pellagra has the same geographical i distribution as pine timber. Prairie l counties do not have pellagra, as pairie soils are necessarily lime soils. Pellagra is not caused my maize alimentation. Pellagra is not caused or communicated by the Butfalo gnat or Simulium fly. The theories of Lombroso and of Sambon have been definitely abandoned, as well as disproven. Pellagra is not one of the " deficiency" diseases. The disease which was induced by Dr. Goldbarger in the convicts in Mississippi was scurvy and not pellagra. The people of the South are not underfed. I have been through the pellagrous districts of the South where the table was filled with the best three times a day. The wealthiest and the best provided die of pellagra. The people of the South have pellagra because their water supply leaches through clays derived from the crystalline, igneous and metamorphic rocks of the Appalachian system. Physicians of the South who have adopted the measures and treatment j outlined by the Italian scientists are curing pellagra. Italy abandoned | the theories of Lombroso, accepted | the findings of Alessandrini and Sea- j la, and cleaned up pellagra so thor-( \'t St You sav d Winter* le price or it them to fering thei arket for ( Then, i 11 stock to the most in fn J111V 111 ww lling oughly that the disease, once so prevalent and so fatal, scarcely figured in her remarkable draft of men for the great war. I might add much more, but this should suffice. M. Perdue, M. D. P. H. Kansas City, Mo., o Will Argue Bigham Case. Columbia, Nov. 16.?The case of Eduund Bigham, Florence man charge I A-ith murdering his brother, mother, sister, and his sister's two children, ivill be argued before the supreme ?ourt next wek, during the hearing >f cases on the special docket, whic i is to be called on the 22nd. Bigharn ' ? appealing from the sentence of the :ourt, in ordering him electricutec. He was to have been electrocuted last ;pring, but his appeal automatically stayed the cxecu ion. 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