Volume 2

Handbook of geographical and historical pathology / by August Hirsch ; translated from the second German edition by Charles Creighton.

  • Hirsch, August, 1817-1894.
Date:
1883-1886
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Credit: Handbook of geographical and historical pathology / by August Hirsch ; translated from the second German edition by Charles Creighton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    CHAPTER YI. PELLAGRA AND ALLIED DISEASES (§§ 60—74). PAGES Symptoms and Morbid Anatomy of Pellagra—History and Pre- sent Distribution—A Recent Disease of tbe Peasantry, limited to a few Regions—Not distinctively caused by Poor Living—Evidence that it is due to Damaged Maize—Not dependent on the Low Nutritive Yalue of a Maize Diet— Due to Maize Cultivated and Harvested under Unfavorable Circumstances—A Bad Maize Harvest is followed by an Increase of Pellagra—The Pellagra-Poison: Experimental Evidence—Affinities to Ergotism—Objections to the Maize- Theory answered—Not Contagious ; doubtfully Hereditary —List of Authorities on Pellagra. Acrodynia (mal des pieds et des mains, erytheme efide- mique).—Clinical Characters. Historical Outbreaks—Affi- nities of Acrodynia with Ergotism and Pellagra: the Food Suspected. Pelade or the Colombian Maize-Disease.—Toxic Effects of Ergot of Maize on Men and Animals . . 217—253 1 CHAPTER VII. MILK-SICKNESS AND TEE TREMBLES (§§ 75—82). “ The Trembles,” an Enzootic Disease of Cattle in the United States—Historical Notices of the Trembles—Nature of the Localities where the Trembles break out—Poor or Fallow Land favorable to the Trembles—The Trembles probably due to a Toxic Substance in the Pasture—“ Milk-Sickness ” in Man corresponding to the Trembles in Cattle—Evidence of Poisoning by the Milk or Meat—Other Explanations of Milk-Sickness. Similar Observations at Malta . 215, CHAPTER VIII. ENDEMIC COLIC” (§§ 83—88). Definition of the Subject—Historical Outbreaks mostly proved to be Lead-Colic-The “Dry Bellyache” of the Tropics- Always caused by Lead—The “Colique Seche” of Steamships of the French Navy—Review of Objections to the Doctrine of Lead-Colic on board Steamships . . 2(j