Next on our list is P-P (Pellagra preventive), nicotinamide,
or nicotinic acid. Known in America also as Niacin. It is the recognized cure
for pellagra.
Pellagra is a deficiency disease which attack those. Who subsist
exclusively on the 3 Ms-meat, maize and molasses. In 1915 on fewer than 11,000 Americans in the
Deep South died from pellagra. In 1917 17,000. In 1927, 120,000. Between 1915-16,
it ranked second as the cause of death in Carolina and the Metropolitan Life
Insurance Company.
Its symptoms are the 3 Ds-dermatitis, diarrhea, dementia. In
the final stages it destroys the nervous system as ruthlessly as either
beriberi or polio. The skin of the pellagrin becomes dark and bronze like deep
sunburn, symmetrically on each side of the face or body. On the backs of the
hands or on the forearms. The skin roughens, cracks, becomes pigmented and
loses elasticity. The tongue swells and grows sores. And the hydrochloric acid
secretion of the stomach, which is needed for the digestion of proteins
diminishes. Thus indigestion and constipation are among the early symptoms. With
diarrhea and the passing of mucous and blood later.
The nervous system is attacked and the pellagrin suffers
from headaches, mental depression, insomnia and acute lassitude. In the final
stage, he/she may toy with the idea of suicide. It is one of those insidious
diseases which develop so gradually and have symptoms. Which resemble so many
other diseases that victim do not realize they are in the grips of pellagra. Till
immobilized by cramp, wasting of muscular tissue, impaired vision and, finally,
paralysis. At the end the pellagrin resembles a mummy whose bones try to push
through taut, unhealthy, yellow-black skin.
Like scurvy and beri-beri, pellagra was once considered an
infectious disease because the skin took on so repulsive an appearance. Those unacquainted
with pellagra cannot be blamed if they edge away on seeing a victim, for the first time.
A group of Scientists, which include R.J. Madden, Elvehjem,
Strong , Wooley Harriet Chick, Sir Charles Martin, Fouts and Spices, including
Hassan and Harris simultaneously carried out experiments which prove. Pellagra is
caused by a famine in the body, of nicotinic acid. If the systems is merely short
of, but not completely denuded of this
Vitamin. Some of the early signs may be apparent. Such as roughening and
symmetrical discoloration of the skin, especially the face. It is wise at this
stage, even if pellagra is not the disease, to take a course of nicotinic acid
and revise your diet.
Children on an inadequate diet, who feel tired and sleepy in
school and seem to lack intelligence, are halfway to pellagra. They can be
cured by an all round diet, rich in Nicotinic acids or Nnendu Nicotinic acid
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