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How could he have provided more convincing evidence of the relationship between pellagra and nutrition?
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What did dr.goldberger do provide evidence of the relationship between pellagra and nutrition?
Dr.Goldberger did an experiment to see what caused pellagra
What did dr.Goldberger do to provide evidence of the relationship between pellagra and nutrition?
Dr.Goldberger did an experiment to see what caused pellagra
What did dr. goldberger do to provide evidence of the relationship between pellagra and nutrition?
He put it in the newspaper
What did Joseph Goldberger do to provide evidence of the relationship between pellagra and nutrition?
Joseph Goldberger, a physician in the U.S. government's Hygienic Laboratory, the predecessor of the National Institutes of Health, discovered the cause of pellagra and stepped on a number of medical toes when his research experiments showed that diet and not germs (the currently held medical theory) caused the disease.
What evidence did Dr.Goldberger conclude about pellagra?
he knew in the south every had pellagra
What evidence did Dr. Goldberger find that suggested that pellagra was not caused by germs?
The evidence was that poor people were the only ones who were getting Pellagra. Because of their poor diet.
What evidence did dr goldberg observe or collect about pellagra?
Got better when diet changed
What evidence Dr goldberger observe or collect about pellagra?
Got better when diet changed
What was drgoldbergers hypothesis about the cause of pellegra?
Pellagra was caused by a poor diet or nutrition of corn bread, pork and syrup
How could Dr Goldberger provide more information between pellagra and nutrition?
idk I'm trying to find it myself.
How do you cure pellagra?
Pellagra can be cured by taking nicotinamide. The nicotinamide can be found in pill form and will reverse the condition of pellagra.
What did dr goldenberger do to show that pellagra was caused by poor nutrition?
Dr. Goldberger took a bunch of healthy prisoners (prisoners without Pellagra) to a sanitary building with screens on the doors and windows so no insects could get in. The building was cleaned every week and the prisoners diet was changed to one consisting of corn and fatback (a piece of meat with a bunch of fat). After a week or two seven out of nine prisoners had Pellagra.
