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Pellagra in Alabama

Pellagrin with characteristic lesions on the hands and arms, [Reproduced in] French, Herbert (ed.). An Index of Differential Diagnosis of Main Symptoms (New York: William Wood & Co., 1917), Lister Hill Library of the Health Sciences. View image.

History of Pellagra

Title page from the second volume of Gaetano Strambio’s De Pellagra, Reynolds-Finley Historical Library. View image.

Gaspar Casal’s illustration of pellagra’s cutaneous lesions around the collar, [From] Deaderick, William H. and Loyd O. Thompson. The Endemic Diseases of the Southern States (Philadelphia: Saunders, 1916), Reynolds-Finley Historical Library. View image.

Robert Thom illustration of Goldberger with his assistant C. H. Waring in one of their 1914 orphanage studies near Jackson, Mississippi (Collection of the University of Michigan Health System, Gift of Pfizer Inc., UMHS. 42.). View image.

Alabama Physicians Debate the "Scourge of the South"

Shown here are the dermatologic symptoms characteristic of the disease exhibited in a child. Photo taken by Dr. H. P. Cole of Mobile, Alabama, published in George N. Niles, 2nd ed., Pellagra: An American Problem (Philadelphia: Saunders, 1916), Reynolds-Finley Historical Library. View image.

Mount Vernon Hospital for the Colored Insane, near Mobile, Alabama, where Dr. George H. Searcy first recognized epidemic pellagra in the U.S., courtesy of UAB Archives. View image.

Dr. Carl A. Grote's Forgotten Contribution

Dr. Carl A. Grote, courtesy of Dr. Carl Grote, Jr., Huntsville, AL. View image.

Grote examines a young patient in Walker County, 1914-1918, courtesy of Dr. Carl Grote, Jr., Huntsville, AL. View image.

Walker County public health work in a local school, 1914-1918, courtesy of Dr. Carl Grote, Jr., Huntsville, AL. View image.

Grote (seated at the desk) and his staff in his office as Walker County Public Health Officer, ca. 1914-1918, courtesy of Dr. Carl Grote, Jr., Huntsville, AL. View image.

Image Credits

Child with pellagra skin eruption on her face, [From] Deaderick, William H. and Loyd O. Thompson. The Endemic Diseases of the Southern States (Philadelphia: Saunders, 1916), Reynolds-Finley Historical Library. View image.