Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-12-27 | Page 4 | Advice on Your Health

Advice on Your Healt By Morris Fishbein Editor Journal American Medical This is the first of five live articles describing medicines medicine's major advances in 1938 Significant advances in medical science during 1938 are related particularly to the development of new methods of diagnosis and treatment of disease Particularly Particularly Particularly important among the greatest greatest greatest great great- est discoveries are those contributions contributions con con- on the treatment of pellagra with nicotinic acid In the southern portions of the United States many thousands of people suffer with this condition Among the general symptoms are inflammation of the skin loss of appetite diarrhea sore tongue and various forms of neuritis In some cases eases the mentality may be involved Dogs frequently suffer with a e disease similar to this conditions which is called black tongue Some years ago the late Dr J. J I Goldberger of the United States public health service found that the people who suffered particularly particularly with pellagra were those whose deits were lacking in certain tam tain fundamental factors Families Families Fam Fam- with pellagra used little milk few vegetables and their diets consisted largely of cereals The chief hief f factor tor in these diets was the or of fresh foods Later it was established that the eating of ofa a diet containing considerable amounts of liver yeast and wheat germ prevented the occurrence occurrence occurrence occur occur- rence of these symptoms The significant factor seemed to be certain parts of the vitamin called vitamin B B. B which is now known to be a mixture of many different vitamins Apparently the factor in this vitamin which cures black tongue in dogs and which likewise controls pellagra in human beings is nicotinic acid The product has now been ed on many patients in whom reddened areas in the mouth gan promptly to improve th the thee flow of saliva The reddened areas on the ha hal of these patients began to 48 hours after efter the was first administered App Api if the patient had been mentally before he e go got pellagra the nicotinic acid cure the pellagra but does cure the mental difficulty wl l had previously existed It Jfe Recently a number of mv gators studied the effects of product on 73 and scribed the results as dram tI i Apparently nicotinic acid closely related substances are are I 1 to the growth and d dew deve ve t i ment of the cells of and a sufficiently prolonged of such substances suits in ill health and in pellagra It was also inter bite 11 i ing to observe that in these in many instances instances' o 0 disturbances which existed at same time as the pellagra cle clea up when the condition of pella pell improved The observations also seem seeni show that the human a definite quantity of and all of its different p part part- order to maintain a good st stat health In those cases in pellagra has developed Qi a deficiency in the diet or beca J the body has been unable to the vitamin B with Jc was furnished great amounts amountS' the vitamin may be need needed d. d t order to bring about results r t Next Heparin stops blood