ID terms Joseph Goldberger

Question 1

Joseph Goldberger

Answer 1

Immigrated to us from Austria, Hungary

Studied doctorate in NYC

Question 2

early career

Answer 2

Few years interning and worked as physician
Joined Marine Hospital Service at Ellis Island
examined arriving immigrants
Quarantine stations, sanitary condition

Question 3

pellagra investigation

Answer 3

Tx: Butterfly skin rash, hallucination, insane, tiredness, loss of weight, sleepy, muscle pain

4D’s
Dermatitis
Diarrhea
Dimentia
Death

Dietary Deficiency
Orphanages (staff had no pellagra but inmates and patients did)
Goldberger change in in diet promote cure and prevention
Only had pork, cornbread (lacked vitamins)

Experiments
Orphanages in Jackson, Mississippi had better diet (vegetables, protein, milk, dairy)
Because of better diet, Pellagra patients got better and stop spread of disease

“Filth Parties”
Volunteers injected and ingested blood, urine and poo to stop spread disease (even got his wife to do it)

Question 4

epidemiology

Answer 4

Income, diet and pellagra somehow related to each other
Common in places that were poor, textiles mills and the South
Adequate amounts of Vitamin B (prevention)

Question 5

Edgar Sydenstricker

Answer 5

PHS colleague
He crunched numbers (statistics) to see the correlation of income, diet and pellagra
Sydenstricker supported Goldberger with diet problems (certain meat affected spread of pellagra)

Question 6

Niacin

Answer 6

Vitamin that help prevent cause of disease
A type of Vitamin B= put in all food to prevent disease
Goldberger needed to convince people that diet is causing disease not germs