Essays Tagged: "Joseph Goldberger"

This essay is about pellagra, a disease that was common in the southeastern states ranging from around the early 1900s until the end of WWII and the many scientists who worked to find the cure.

om the time of its first known reports in the early 1900's to the end of World War II, in 1945. Dr. Joseph Goldberger, from New York, was given credit for finding the cure for Pellagra. Contributing t ... he southern states, he informed the Attorney General at the time that something had to be done. Dr. Joseph Goldberger who had a history of combating some of the most deadly and confusing diseases of t ...

(14 pages) 83 2 4.7 May/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases