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Asylum doctor : James Woods Babcock and the red plague of pellagra / Charles S. Bryan.
- Title
- Asylum doctor : James Woods Babcock and the red plague of pellagra / Charles S. Bryan.
- Author
- Bryan, Charles S.
- Publication
- Columbia, S.C. : University Of South Carolina Press, [2014]
- ©2014
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- Description
- xxvii, 402 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- 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.
- Uniform Title
- Project Muse UPCC books.
- Alternative Title
- James Woods Babcock and the red plague of pellagra
- Subject
- Babcock, James Woods
- Babcock, James Woods, 1856-1922
- Babcock, James Woods, 1856-1922
- South Carolina State Hospital for Insane
- Public Health > history
- Mental Health Services > history
- Hospitals, Psychiatric
- Hospital Administrators > history
- History, 20th Century
- Physicians
- Pellagra > history
- Pellagra
- Mental health services > South Carolina
- Psychiatric hospitals > South Carolina
- Hospitals, Psychiatric
- Pellagra > United States > History > 20th century
- Pellagra > history > South Carolina > Biography
- Hospitals, Psychiatric > South Carolina > Biography
- Mental Health Services > history > South Carolina > Biography
- Public Health > history > South Carolina > Biography
- South Carolina
- Genre/Form
- Biography
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 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.
- ISBN
- 1611174902
- 9781611174908
- OCLC
- 878502444
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library