After observing mill towns, mental hospitals, and orphanages in the South, epidemiologist Joseph Goldberger determined that malnutrition was the cause of pellagra. Goldberger's work led other doctors to discover the exact cause of the disease, a niacin deficiency.
Courtesy of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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