An edition of Asylum Doctor (2014)
Asylum Doctor
James Woods Babcock and the Red Plague of Pellagra
By Charles S. Bryan
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Publish Date
May 16, 2014
Publisher
University of South Carolina Press
Language
eng
Pages
432
Description:
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.