The work of Gaspar Casal, following a 1735 visit to a town in the Iberian Peninsula, constituted the first medical identification of this malady, and its characteristic neck lesions are called "Casal's necklace" in his honor.
The work of Gaspar Casal, following a 1735 visit to a town in the Iberian Peninsula, constituted the first medical identification of this malady, and its characteristic neck lesions are called "Casal's necklace" in his honor. For the next 200 years it spread, primarily afflicting poor people forced to survive on a diet lacking milk or meat. Known as the "disease of the three Ds" -- dermatitis, diarrhea, and dementia -- it has often ended in a fourth "D", death. FTP, identify this non-contagious disease studied in 1915 by Joseph Goldberger and finally cured in 1937 by Conrad Elvehjem with his discovery of the vitamin niacin.
The work of Gaspar Casal, following a 1735 visit to a town in the Iberian Peninsula, constituted the first medical identification of this malady, and its characteristic neck lesions are called "Casal's necklace" in his honor.
pellagra or mal de sole or mal de la misere or mal de la rosa