Red Madness How a medical mystery changed what we eat First edition by Gail Jarrow. A FAQ, timeline and glossary conclude the captivating tale, which pinpoints the reason bread is enriched today. Red Madness by Gail Jarrow, 2014, Calkins Creek edition, Hardcover in English - First edition. Archival photos of sufferers of all ages are poignant and graphic. After six months, she began to forget things and wondered if she might be going insane." These individual accounts create an urgent backdrop of suffering and death for the story of the epidemiological quest to find a cause and cure.
Sallie Graham, a 55-year-old Virginia woman whose "health had been good until she developed a skin irritation that wouldn't go away. The author's extensive research turns up personal stories within the story interspersed throughout are brief vignettes of "pellagrins" like Mrs. In this compelling book, award-winning science and history writer Gail Jarrow tracks this disease and highlights how doctors, scientists, and public health officials struggled to stop the epidemic, sometimes risking their own lives in the process. The disease causes a patterned red rash, intestinal distress, dementia, and eventually death. at the turn of the 20th century, it primarily struck the impoverished in the South (where cotton had displaced nutritious food crops).
Jarrow (The Amazing Harry Kellar: Great American Magician) takes readers on a medical detective journey full of dead ends, twists, politics, and culture as she details the story of pellagra, a deadly disease caused by niacin deficiency.
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