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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