Asylum doctor : James Woods Babcock and the red plague of pellagra / Charles S. Bryan.

Columbia, S.C. : University Of South Carolina Press, [2014]

xxvii, 402 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-398) and index.

Jimmie -- Superintendent -- Founder of the movement -- How bad it was -- Sambon's obsession -- So near, so far -- A plain farmer's daughter -- The blind men of Hindustan -- Perspective: asylum doctor -- Appendix I. Mortality and full recoveries (as percentages of patients treated) by race, South Carolina State Hospital for the Insane, 1891-1914 -- Appendix 2. Parallels in the histories of beriberi and pellagra -- Appendix 3. A chronology of pellagra and niacin -- Appendix 4. Summary of the four major pellagra conferences held at the South Carolina State Hospital for the Insane, 1908-1915.