"Is Pellagra a Preventable Disease?" Transactions of the Medical Association of the State of Alabama (April 1914): 237-242.
Pruett addresses pellagra prevention and notes that the unresolved nature of its etiology makes confident assertions about the topic difficult. He believes that arsenic therapy may have some benefit, and refers to the Thompson-McFadden Commission, criticizing the infection theory by warning against...
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University of Alabama Birmingham
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| Summary: | Pruett addresses pellagra prevention and notes that the unresolved nature of its etiology makes confident assertions about the topic difficult. He believes that arsenic therapy may have some benefit, and refers to the Thompson-McFadden Commission, criticizing the infection theory by warning against too hasty an abandonment of the spoiled maize or spoilage theory in general. |
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