It has also been found very useful in pellagra and malaria.
Pellagra is a slow but usually progressive disease occurring chiefly in Italy, due, it is thought, to the continued ingestion of decomposed or fermented maize.
Jeff Tuttle says Jake must be mistaken because the pellagra is a kind of a Spanish dance, he believes.
He said the languorous Southern atmosphere give 'em pellagra or something.
Other observers, while admitting that a faulty diet may predispose to pellagra as to tuberculosis and other diseases, do not assent to the view that it is the primary factor.
Usually, where a mixed diet with meat is possible, pellagra never appears.
Indications are that the disease appears only when such corn has been used, and in parts of Mexico where corn is always roasted before being used, pellagra is never known.
At Midland the histories of five cases of pellagra were obtained, which gave clear evidence that this place or its immediate vicinity was the point of origin.
The accumulated evidence is increasingly opposed to Sambon's hypothesis of the transmission of pellagra by Simulium.
We have here a region in which cases of pellagra have originated, yet in which Simulium does not and cannot breed.
As our knowledge of pellagra accumulates, it is more and more evident that its origin is in some way closely associated with the domicile.
Hunter, of the Bureau of Entomology, and in cooperation with the Thompson-McFadden Pellagra Commission of the Department of Tropical Medicine of the New York Post-Graduate Medical School.
The manifestations of pellagra are periodic and its duration indeterminate.
Yet, after all the studies of the past decade, the old belief that pellagrais essentially of dietary origin is gaining ground.
He presented clear evidence thatpellagra existed in Europe before the introduction of Indian corn from America, as an article of diet, and that its spread was not pari passu with that of the use of corn.
Pellagra has been proved with the highest attainable scientific certainty to be due to a staple diet of bread or porridge made from damaged or spoilt maize.
But the fact that some cases of leprosy develop nodules along the disordered nerves does not remove the disease as a whole from the class to which pellagra belongs.
The pellagra of the North Italian peasantry (and of Roumania, Gascony and some other limited areas) is the nearest affinity to leprosy among the species of disease.
This lesion is of note because it has been described frequently in the protocols of human necropsies, and is found in beriberi, in avian polyneuritis, and in pellagra in man.
A case of this kind has come to our attention which resembled pellagra in many respects.
Pellagra runs a slow course, beginning almost unnoticed in the first year, with a simple cutaneous eruption, which the peasants sometimes attribute to the sun.
Pellagra is still another scourge diffused over many regions of Italy.
It is impossible to say that pellagra is a nutritional disease, but it is certain that in balancing the diet much has been done toward relieving the condition.
The diet in pellagra is one which is well balanced in all its particulars, and one in which the proteins are carefully adjusted as to type.
Arrange a well balanced diet for pellagra in which forty grams of protein shall come from milk, meat or eggs.
In all probability the treatment of pellagrawill undergo a definite change in the near future, but at present our best results accrue from the giving of an adequate, well-balanced diet.
The diet for pellagra must necessarily be such as to overcome as far as possible the progressive emaciation which is an important symptom.
The hypothesis that there is a causal relation between pellagra and a restricted vegetable diet has been substantiated by direct proof to this effect and has led to results of considerable practical and scientific value.
The metabolism in pellagra shows certain definite changes from the normal, which point to decreased gastric secretion and increased intestinal putrefaction.
The increased prevalence of pellagra is exciting attention all over the United States, and is very generally assumed to be the result of lack of care in the harvesting and preservation of our corn.
Goldberger states that after the addition of milk to the diet of a pellagrin, the typical clinical picture of pellagra no longer persists.
In Italy, where the milling of corn is still primitive, pellagra is not so severe as with us, because the corn offal is not completely removed and this contains the accessory food substances or vitamines which are essential to life.
The poor in the mill towns of the South lived too exclusively upon a corn diet without admixture of milk or fresh animal food or even of cabbage, and pellagra has been the consequence.
Pellagra occurs in the "corn belt" of the United States, and especially among the poorer classes in the south.
Pellagra is generally believed to be produced by a too exclusive use of highly milled corn and wheat flour in association with salt meats and canned goods, all of which are deficient in vitamines.
In warm climates, pellagra or Italian leprosy is said to be produced by eating diseased maize, which forms the principal article of food among the poorer classes of the rural districts.
Pellagra is epidemic in northern Italy and the south of France.
A,: The experimental production of pellagra in the monkey.
Pellagra with erythema of scrotum as initial skin manifestation.
A statistical study of the relation of pellagra to use of certain foods and to location of domicile.
Experimentally produced pellagra in human subjects by means of diet.
Pellagra still resists the efforts of the vitamine hypothesis to bend it to that theory and its etiology is still obscure.
The production in monkeys of symptoms closely resembling pellagra by prolonged feeding on a diet of low protein content.
This does not imply that the disease is necessarily due to a deficiency of diet in a specific substance such as the hypothetical pellagra vitamine of Funk (1913).
Biological study of a diet resembling the Rankin Farm pellagra producing diet and feeding experiments with the Rankin diet.
In elaborating on conclusion 5 Voegtlin states that: The conception that pellagra is due to a dietary deficiency is, therefore, not contradicted by the available evidence.
Without the polyneuritic fowls we might never have cured beri-beri, the guinea pig made the solution of the scurvy problem possible and if some way of inducing pellagra in an animal can be devised that scourge may yet be eliminated.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pellagra" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: anemia; beriberi; dermatitis; goiter; malnutrition; pellagra; rickets; scurvy
