The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, November 17, 1921, Image 8
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
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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
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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
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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
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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-(
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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.,
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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. Bigham is in
:he death house of the penitentiary,
where he has been since his trial
?arly in the year.
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Missouri Lady Suffered Until Sba
Tried Cardui.?Says "Result j
Was Surprising."?Got Along
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Springfield Mo.?"My back vu so
weak I could hardly stand up, and I
would have bearing-down pains and
was not well at any time," says Mrs.
B. V. Williams, wife cf a well-known1
farmer on Route 6, this place. "I J
kept getting headaches and having to i
go to bed," continues Mrs. Williams I
describing the troubles from which j
she obtained relief through the use of |
CarduL "My husband, having heard;!
of Cardul, proposed getting it for me. j
"I saw after taking some Carduli !
,,. that I was improvirg. The result (
was surprising. I felt like a different ;
person.
"Later I suffered from weakness !
and weak back, and fe't all run-down. :
I did not rest well at light, I was so
nervous and cross. M ?husband said j
he would get me ? > Cardul, which i
he did. It streng j d me . . . My i
doctor said I got tfine. I was In
good healthy cos ti n. I cannot
say too much for u."
Thousands of women have suffered
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