Show STRANGE MALADY MAY Kill D DOCTOR Conqueror of Pellagra Seriously Ill Has Blood Transfusions WASHINGTON Dec 29 AP AP- AP Th The Tho man who found nd the cause and cure for a mysterious disease has been attacked by a strange malady that t threatens him with death Two blood transfusions have al already already al- al 1 ready been given Dr Joseph Goldberger Goldberger Goldberger Gold- Gold berger United States public health servI service e l physician and conqueror of ot pellagra and others othor will wUl be made semiweekly His physicians are at ata ata ata a loss to e explain his illness though they agree that it is some form of anemia A further touch of mystery mystery mys mys- tery was added however when wh-an it was said that this might not be the primary cause causo of cC his ailment aUment Twenty of Dr Goldberger's associates asso asso- elates volunteered for blood transfusIons trans trans- fusions when it wa was learned that these were needed and fourteen of the twenty were accepted WORKED OUT CURE Dr gained fame by his work with l pellagra his studies showing that it was caused by the absence of a specific vitamin which he named PP PI Tracing the tho disease disease dis dis- ease to an unbalanced diet he worked out a cure during the fifteen fifteen teen years that he was In iii charge of or field fieM investigations into nto the malad malady for the public h health alth service serice This euro curt was was' simplicity itself HeIr the use of cf dried yeast which o served as asa asa asa a preventive Pellagra centered in the United I States in the south and after the I flood of 1927 which impoverished wide Ide sections another outbreak of It was feared The Red lied Cross dis- dis b several tons of dried yeast among the refugees and there were only occasional and wl widely fly scattered cases MUCH RESEARCH WORK Known among laymen principally for his work vork with pellagra among his fellow scientists Dr Goldberger's Goldberger's Goldberger's Goldber Goldber- gers ger's research work on yellow fever Dengue fever measles t typhus fe fever fever fever fe- fe ver diphtheria and other infectious diseases has commanded attention and respect His work with pellagra marked an advance in the study of nutritIon nutrition nutrition tion in general He was engaged in dietetic studies in the public health services service's laboratory here when he became ill about three weeks ago |