RT Journal
T1 THe conference on pellagra
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1909
FD November 13
VO LIII
IS 20
SP 1645
OP 1646
DO 10.1001/jama.1909.02550200039008
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1909.02550200039008
AB We devote considerable space this week to our report of the Conference on Pellagra, which was held last week at Columbia, S. C. Approximately six hundred physicians from all over the United States attended the meeting, and the manifold aspects of pellagra were discussed at great length. Unusual interest was shown throughout the deliberations of the conference. One striking feature was the purely scientific, humanitarian spirit which pervaded the meetings and which influenced those who took an active part in the proceedings. There was no disposition displayed to seek personal gain or aggrandizement. It seemed that every delegate had come with a desire to learn more about this disease1 which has been attracting the attention not only of the medical profession of the world, but of the laity.The conference assumed both a national and an international character, in that some of the papers read were contributed by distinguished