pellagra
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Origin of pellagra
1805–15; < Italian < New Latin: skin disease, equivalent to pell ( is ) skin + -agra < Greek ágra seizure
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They remind us that nostalgia for the food culture of our grandparents overlooks the prevalence of rickets, pellagra and food-poisoning in those days, to say nothing of hunger.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
Since then, researchers have focused on the substances’ health benefits, learning more about the links between vitamin deficiencies and disease and using them to treat conditions like pellagra and anemia.
From National Geographic ● Nov. 9, 2023
And during the 20th century, pellagra was widespread in the South where low-wage Black laborers like Flemmie’s sister Mabel lived off of salt pork, corn meal, and molasses.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 26, 2023
She had been suffering from scurvy, beriberi and pellagra since her hospital stay.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 21, 2022
He had survived pellagra in Persia, scurvy in the Malayan archipelago, leprosy in Alexandria, beriberi in Japan, bubonic plague in Madagascar, an earthquake in Sicily, and a disastrous shipwreck in the Strait of Magellan.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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