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Descriptive Summary
Biographical/Historical Note
Collection Summary
Index Terms
Administrative Information
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Series Descriptions
Series I: Correspondence,
1914-1919
Series II: Hospital Data,
1909-1930
Series III: Reports, 1911-1915
Series IV: Reprints, 1909-1940
Series V: Writings and Research,
1914-1940
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| Collection Number: | MS C 196 |
| Creator: | Goldberger, Joseph, 1874-1929 |
| Title: | Joseph Goldberger Papers
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| Dates: | 1909-1940 |
| Quantity: | 0.84 linear feet |
Joseph Goldberger earned his medical degree at New York City's Bellevue College in 1895. Wanting to play a more dynamic role in medicine, he left his private practice and joined the U.S. Marine Hospital Service as an Assistant Surgeon in 1899. He spent the next fifteen years in the field working to eradicate epidemics of yellow fever, typhoid fever, dengue fever, and typhus in the United States and Central America. In 1914 the Surgeon General selected Goldberger to determine the cause of pellagra. His research successfully demonstrated that the condition was dietary in origin and largely the result of vitamin B deficiency. Controversy followed his conclusions. Much of the medical community was unwilling to concede that pellagra was not a germ-based disease. The means for pellagra's eradication, an improved diet for poor southern farmers, implied a need for social improvement, a theory that many resisted.
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The collection contains official Public Health Service correspondence (1914-1919), collected data of several hospitals' diets (1909-1916), articles and reprints about the causes of pellagra (1915-1940), state and national board of health reports (1911-1915), and reports from the Thompson-McFadden Pellagra Commission (1914-1915).
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| MeSH Subjects |
| | Pellagra |
| | Research |
| Geographic Names |
| | South Carolina |
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Goldberger, Joseph. Joseph Goldberger Papers. 1909-1940. Located in: Modern Manuscripts Collection, History of Medicine Division, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD; MS C 196.
Gift, Joseph H. Goldberger, M.D., 8/1987, Acc. #465/475.
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Series I: Correspondence,
1914-1919
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| Box | Folder |
| 1 | 1-2 | 1914-1919 |
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Series II: Hospital Data,
1909-1930
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| Box | Folder |
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Alabama Insane Hospital, Mt. Vernon, AL - diets,
1914 |
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Central State Hospital,
1914 |
| 1 | 5-6 | East Mississippi Insane Hospital,
1914 |
| 1 | 7 | Eastern State Hospital, Lexington, KY,
1914 |
| 1 | 8 | Louisiana Hosptial, Prineville, LA - diets,
1914 |
| 1 | 9 | Mississippi State Insane Hospital, Jackson, MS,
1913 |
| 1 | 10 | Pellagra cases and diets,
1913-1915 |
| 1 | 11 | Pellagra patients,
1916-1930 |
| 1 | 12 | Philadelphia Hospital for the Insane - diet list, n.d. |
| 1 | 13 | South Carolina State Hospital, Columbia, SC - list of ward employees, 1914 |
| 1 | 14 | State Hospital, Goldsboro, NC,
1916 |
| 1 | 15 | State Hospital for the Insane, Norristown, PA - diets, 1909 |
| 1 | 16 | Thornwell Orphanage, Clinton, SC,
1914 |
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Series III: Reports, 1911-1915
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| 1 | 17 | Report of the Pellagra Commission of the State of Illinois, 1912 |
| 1 | 18 | Pellagra - a summary of the first progress report of the Thompson-McFadden Pellagra Commission, 1914 |
| 1 | 19 | Proceedings of the 30th annual meeting of the Conference of State and Provincial Boards of Health of North America,
1915 |
| 1 | 20 | Further studies of the Thompson-McFadden Pellagra Commission -- a summary of the,
1915 |
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Series IV: Reprints, 1909-1940
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| Box | Folder |
| 1 | 22 | Bulletin of the Illinois State Board of Health, v.5, nos. 5 & 7, 1909 |
| 1 | 21 | Joseph Goldberger, C. H. Waring and David G. Willets. "The prevention of pellagra -- a test of diet among institutional inmates." from Public Health Reports,
1916 |
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Joseph Goldberger. "The transmissibility of pellagra -- experimental attempts at transmission to the human subject." from Public Health Reports,
1916 |
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W. H. Sebrell and R. H. Onstott. "Riboflavin deficiency in dogs." from Public Health Reports, 1938 |
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W. H. Sebrell and R. E. Butler. "Riboflavin deficiency in man -- a preliminary note." from Public Health Reports,
1939 |
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H. D. Kruse, v.P. Sydenstricker, W. H. Sebrell, and H. M. Cleckley. "Ocular
manifestations of ariboflavinosis." from Public Health Reports,
1940 |
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Series V: Writings and Research,
1914-1940
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by Goldberger |
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"The etiology of pellagra -- the significance of certain epidemiological observations with respect thereto." Public Health Reports, v.29, no.26,
1914 |
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"The treatment and prevention of pellagra." [with C. H. Waring and David G.
Willets] Public Health Reports, v.29, no.43,
1914 |
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"The prevalence of pellagra -- a test of diet among institutional inmates." [with C. H.
Waring and David G. Willets] Public Health Reports, v.30, no.43,
1915 |
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"Experimental pellagra in the human subject brought about by a restricted diet." [with G. A. Wheeler] Public Health Reports, v.30, no.46,
1915 |
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"The transmissibility of pellagra -- experimental attempts at transmission to the human
subject." Public Health Reports, v.31, no.46,
1916 |
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"Pellagra -- its nature and prevention." Public Health Reports, v.33, no.14, 1918 |
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"A study of the relation of diet to pellagra incidence in seven textile-mill communities of South Carolina in 1916." [with G. A. Wheeler and Edgar Sydenstricker] Public Health Reports, v.35, no.12,
1920 |
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"Pellagra incidence in relation to sex, age, season, occupation, and 'disabling sickness' in seven cotton-mill villages of South Carolina during 1916." [with G. A. Wheeler and Edgar Sydenstricker] Public Health Reports, v.35, no.28,
1920 |
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"A study of the relation of factors of a sanitary character to pellagra incidence in seven cotton-mill villages of South Carolina in 1916." [with G. A. Wheeler, Edgar
Sydenstricker, and R. E. Tarbett] Public Health Reports, v.35, no.29,
1920 |
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"A study of the relation of family income and other economic factors to pellagra
incidence in seven cotton-mill villages of South Carolina in 1916." [with G. A. Wheeler
and Edgar Sydenstricker] Public Health Reports, v.35, no.46,
1920 |
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"Some commonly misapprehended points in the diagnosis of pellagra." The Military
Surgeon, v.XLVII, no.1, 1920 |
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"The experimental production of pellagra in human subjects by means of diet." [with G.
A. Wheeler] Bulletin (Hygienic Laboratory), no.120,
1920 |
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"Amino-acid deficiency probably the primary etiological factor in pellagra." [with W. F. Tanner] Public Health Reports, v.37, no.9,
1922 |
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"On the probable identity of the Chittenden-Underhill pellagra-like syndrome in dogs and 'black-tongue.'" [with G. A. Wheeler, and M. R. Blackstock] Public Health Reports, v.37, no.18, 1922 |
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"Pellagra prevention by diet among institutional inmates." [with C. H. Waring and W. F.
Tanner] Public Health Reports, v.38, no.41,
1923 |
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"A case of black tongue, with post-mortem findings." [with W. F. Tanner and E. B. Saye]
Public Health Reports, v.38, no.46,
1923 |
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"A study of the treatment and prevention of pellagra." [with W. F. Tanner] Public Health Reports, v.39, no.3, 1924 |
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"A study of the pellagra-preventive action of dried beans, casein, dried milk, and
brewers' yeast, with a consideration of the essential preventive factors involved." [with W. F. Tanner] Public Health Reports, v.40, no.2,
1925 |
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"Yeast in the treatment of pellagra and black tongue." [with G. A. Wheeler and W. F.
Tanner] Public Health Reports, v.40, no.19,
1925 |
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"A further study of butter, fresh beef, and yeast as pellagra preventives, with
consideration of the relation of factor P-P of pellagra (and black tongue of dogs) to
vitamin B [with G. A. Wheeler, R. D. Lillie, and L. M. Rogers] Public Health Reports, v.41, no.8,
1926 |
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"A note on an experimental pellagra-like condition in the albino rat." [with R. D. Lillie] Public Health Reports, v.41, no.22,
1926 |
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"A study of the pellagra-preventive action of the tomato, carrot, and rutabaga turnip."
[with G. A. Wheeler] Public Health Reports, v.42, no.19,
1927 |
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"Pellagra -- its nature and prevention." Public Health Reports, v.42, no.35, 1927 |
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"A study of the pellagra-preventive action of the cowpea (vigna sinensis) and of
commercial wheat germ." [with G. A. Wheeler] Public Health Reports, v.42, no.39, 1927 |
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"Pellagra in the Mississippi flood area." [with Edgar Sydenstricker] Public Health Reports, v.42, no.44, 1927 |
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"A study of endemic pellagra in some cotton-mill villages of South Carolina -- an
abstract." [with G. A. Wheeler, Wilford I. King, William S. Bean, Jr., R. E. Dyer, J. D. Reichard, P. M. Stewart, M. C. Edmunds, R. E. Tarbett, Dorothy Wiehl, and Jennie C. Goddard] Public Health Reports, v.43, no.41,
1928 |
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"A study of endemic pellagra in some cotton-mill villages of South Carolina." [with G.
A. Wheeler, Edgar Sydenstricker, and Wilford I. King] Bulletin (Hygienic Laboratory),
no.153, 1929 |
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"A study of the black tongue preventive value of lard, salt pork, dried green peas, and
canned haddock." [with G. A. Wheeler, L. M. Rogers and W. H. Sebrell] Public Health Reports, v.45, no.23, 1930 |
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"Twenty-five years ago -- from journals of 1915 -- pellagra." [with C. H. Waring and
David G. Willets] Southern Medical Journal, v.33, no.12,
1940 |
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by others |
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Edgar Sydenstricker. "The prevalence of pellagra -- its possible relation to the high cost of food." Public Health Reports, v.30, no.43,
1915 |
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Edgar Sydenstricker, G. A. Wheeler, and Joseph Goldberger. "Disabling sickness among
the population of seven cotton mill villages of South Carolina in relation to family
income." Public Health Reports, v.33, no.47,
1918 |
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Seneca Mill -- wages, n.d. |
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