The log cabin Democrat., 1915-11-18
pfILACRA CAUSE
 AND CURE FOUND
!. s. HEALTH OFFICIALS
,NNOITNCE THE DISCOVERY OF TREATMENT FOR RAPIDLY
 SPREADING DISEASE.
An offl .ial announcement just is-

An Qfl ;ial announcement just is- ,sned 5y the United States public saoltb service that the cause and cure nf nellagra has just been definitely So+ermined. will be read with great interest by many Faulkner county families. As is the case in nearly avery southern county, this disease has hoen increasing at an alarming rate in recent years, and the fact that it hoe been definitely determined, after exhaustive tests by government scien- t;cts that the disease is caused by an incorrect diet and may be cured by a correct diet. will be welcome news to hundreds of families where there are ono or more sufferers from the dread malady.
 The official bulletin from the Unit ed States treasury department is as follows:
 Announcement was made at the treasury department today that as a result of continued research and ex- neriments of the public health service, both the cause and the cure of pella- ora have been discovered, and that the spread of this dread malady, which has been increasing in the Tinted States at terrific rate during the past few years, may now be check ed and eventually eradicated Assist ant Secretary Newton, in charge of the public health service, expressed great interest in the discovery and re- cards it as one of the most important achievements of medical science in re- cent years.
 "Pellagra has been increasing alarmingly throughout the United States during the last eight years, and it is estimated that 75,000 cases of the disease will have occurred in the United States in 1915, and of this number at least 7,500 will have died before the end of the year. In many sections only tuberculosis and pneu- monia exceed it as cause of death.
 'sThe final epoch-making experiment of the public health service was car ried out at the farm of the Mississip- pi state penitentiary, about eight miles east of Jackson, Miss, and to- gether with the previous work of the service completes the chain in the prevention and cure of the disease. The work at the Mississippi farm has been in charge of Surgeon Joseph Goldberger and Assistant Surgeon G. A. Wheeler of the United States pub lie health service. The farm consists of 3,200 acres, in the center of which is the convict camp. The final ex- pertinent was undertaken for the pur- pose of testing the possibility of pro- ducing pellagra in healthy human white adult males by restricted, one-sided, mainly carbohydrate (cer- eaD diet. Of eleven convicts who vol unteered for this experiment, six de veloped a typical dermatitis and mild nervous gastro-intestinal symptoms.
 Experts, including Dr. E. H. Gallo way, the secretary of the Mississippi state board of helath, pr. Nolan Stew art, former superintendent of the Mississippi state hospital for the in- sane at Jackson, Dr. Marcus Hause, professor of dermatology, medical col lege of the University of Tennessee, Memphis, Tenn, and Dr. Martin K. Engman, professor of dermatology in the Washington Medical School, St. Louis, Mo-, declare that the disease which was produced was true pella- gra.
 "Prior to the commencement or thees experiments no history could De found of the occurrence of pellagra on the penitentiary farm. On this farm are 75 or 80 convicts. Governor Earl Brewer offered to pardon twelve of the convicts who would volunteer for the experiment. They were as- sured that they would receive proper care throughout the experiment, and