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NIH physician Dr. Joseph Goldberger's discovery of the cause for pellagra, a disease, resulting from a diet deficient in vitamin B, that killed many poor Southerners in the early part of the 20th century.
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  Dr. Joseph Goldberger with three of his four children at his in-law's summer home in Biloxi, Mississippi, ca,1910. From left to right: Joseph Herman Goldberger, Dr. Joseph Goldberger, Edgar Farrar Goldberger, and Benjamin Humphreys Goldberger is seated on his father's lap.
  
     
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