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Asylum doctor : James Woods Babcock and the red plague of pellagra
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Dr. James Woods Babcock, superintendent of the South Carolina State Hospital for the Insane from 1891 to 1914, led the American response to pellagra, producing the first English-language treatise o...
Dr. James Woods Babcock, superintendent of the South Carolina State Hospital for the Insane from 1891 to 1914, led the American response to pellagra, producing the first English-language treatise on the disease and organizing the meetings of the National Association for the Study of Pellagra.
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- Creator
- Charles S. Bryan
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- Books
- Language
- English
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- Columbia, SC : University of South Carolina Press, [2014]
- ©2014
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- xxvii, 402 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 1611174902, 9781611174908
- OCLC
- ocn878502444
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Jimmie -- Superintendent -- Founder of the movement -- How bad it was -- Sambon's obsession -- So near, so far -- A plain farmer's daughter -- The blind men of Hindustan -- Perspective: asylum doctor -- Appendix I. Mortality and full recoveries (as percentages of patients treated) by race, South Carolina State Hospital for the Insane, 1891-1914 -- Appendix 2. Parallels in the histories of beriberi and pellagra -- Appendix 3. A chronology of pellagra and niacin -- Appendix 4. Summary of the four major pellagra conferences held at the South Carolina State Hospital for the Insane, 1908-1915
Subjects
- Babcock, James Woods, 1856-1922.
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- Pellagra -- history.
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- Physicians.
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- History, 20th Century.
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- Hospital Administrators -- history.
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- Hospitals, Psychiatric.
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- Mental Health Services -- history.
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- Public Health -- history.
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- South Carolina.
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- Pellagra.
- Mental health services -- South Carolina.
- Psychiatric hospitals -- South Carolina.
- Babcock, James Woods, 1856-1922.
- South Carolina State Hospital for Insane.