Asylum doctor : James Woods Babcock and the red plague of pellagra / Charles S. Bryan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bryan, Charles S., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Babcock, James Woods, 1856-1922.

Babcock, James Woods.

Pellagra--history.

Psychiatric hospitals.

Mental health services.

South Carolina.

Physicians.

History, 20th Century.

Hospital Administrators--history.

Hospitals, Psychiatric.

Mental Health Services--history.

Public Health--history.

Pellagra.

Mental health services--South Carolina.

Psychiatric hospitals--South Carolina.

South Carolina State Hospital for Insane.

Medical Subjects:

Pellagra--history.

South Carolina.

Physicians.

History, 20th Century.

Hospital Administrators--history.

Hospitals, Psychiatric.

Mental Health Services--history.

Public Health--history.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 402 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Columbia, S.C. : University Of South Carolina Press, [2014]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Jimmie

Superintendent

Founder of the movement

How bad it was

Sambon's obsession

So near, so far

A plain farmer's daughter

The blind men of Hindustan

Perspective: asylum doctor

Appendix I. Mortality and full recoveries (as percentages of patients treated) by race, South Carolina State Hospital for the Insane, 1891-1914

Appendix 2. Parallels in the histories of beriberi and pellagra

Appendix 3. A chronology of pellagra and niacin

Appendix 4. Summary of the four major pellagra conferences held at the South Carolina State Hospital for the Insane, 1908-1915.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1611174902

9781611174908

OCLC:

878502444