He Fed the Sick and Was Branded a Madman: The Pellagra Files
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He Fed the Sick and Was Branded a Madman: The Pellagra Files
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Pellagra was killing up to forty percent of the people it touched and entire wards filled with the lame, the mad, and the dying - yet one federal physician cured one hundred and seventy-two sick children in weeks with groceries, not medicine. How did Joseph Goldberger prove diet, not contagion, caused pellagra and still fail to convince his country?
In this episode, we follow Joseph Goldberger from his immigrant childhood to his work for the U.S. Public Health Service and his 1914 experiments in Mississippi. The episode covers his observations in orphanages and asylums, the prevailing germ theory, and the central question of why a demonstrated dietary cure was rejected.
Person: Joseph Goldberger
Date: spring of 1914
Location: Jackson, Mississippi orphanages
Topic: pellagra; dietary cause vs. contagion
Event: recovery of 172 sick children after dietary intervention
- Goldberger counted 172 sick children in two Mississippi orphanages in the spring of 1914.
- Nearly every one of those 172 children had recovered within weeks after changing their diets.
- By 1912 South Carolina recorded 30,000 cases of pellagra in a single year.
- Pellagra had killed up to 40% of everyone it touched according to the transcript.
- Goldberger was born on July 16, 1874 in Girált, Sáros County (now Giraltovce) and emigrated to the Lower East Side in 1883.
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