Pellagra mortality in the historic Mississippi State Asylum: An investigation and comparison of skeletal data and institutional records
<p>Pellagra, a nutritional disease with no known diagnostic skeletal indicators, affected patients in the Mississippi State Insane Asylum (MSA) between 1909 and 1936. The current study employed a sample of the MSAs death-by-discharge records (N=3445) and a skeletal sample (N=19) from the MSA c...
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2017
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| Online Access: | http://sun.library.msstate.edu/ETD-db/theses/available/etd-11162016-213159/ |