A case of pellagra / by Howard Fox.

  • Fox, Howard, 1873-1947.
Date:
1910
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Credit: A case of pellagra / by Howard Fox. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    By Howard Fox, M. D., New York. In 1883, Sherwell reported a case of pellagra in his service at the Long Island College Hospital (Journal of Cutaneous and Venereal Diseases, 1893, No. 5, p. 142). Nearly twenty years later a second case was seen and reported by the same writer (Transactions of the American Dermato- logical Association, 1902, p. 76). Both of these patients were Italians, one of them a sailor, the other an immigrant. Both of them died at the hos- pital. At the December meeting of the New York Dermatological Society, Dr. J. A. Fordyce stated that he had seen an undoubted pellagrin three years previously in his service at the City Hospital. This case, occurring in an Italian woman did not seem of sufficient interest at the time to report. Dr. Claude Lavinder, of the Marine Hospital Service, informs me that he has lately seen a case of pel- lagra at the Marine Hospital at Staten Island. There is also at present a patient in the Manhattan State Hospital for the Insane, in which the diag- nosis of mild pellagra was made three months ago by Dr. Roy Van Wart, of New Orleans. At the present time, however, the case presents no char- acteristic symptoms of the disease. It was recently my privilege to present before the New York Academy of Medicine the first case (to my knowledge) to be shown before any medi- *Presented before the New York Academy of Medicine, December 16, 1909. Copyright, 1910, by A. R. Elliott Publishing Company.