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This website was written by Alan Kraut, Ph.D., Professor of History, American University and 1996 Stetten Museum Senior Visiting Fellow.
Web site production by the National Institutes of Health Medical Arts and Printing department.

Photography Credits

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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. Photo reproduced with permission of the Joseph Goldberger family .
• Small boy with pellagra. Courtesy of the National Library of Medicine; Man, reproduced with permission of the Waring Historical Library of the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC.
• Dr. Joseph Goldberger. Reproduced with permission of the Southern Historical Collection, Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
• Bellvue Hospital Staff. Reproduced with permission of the Southern Historical Collection, Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
• Mary Farrar Goldberger. Reproduced with permission of the Joseph Goldberger family.
• Dr. Joseph Goldberger. Seated at a table in a hospital. Photo reproduced with permission of the Joseph Goldberger family.
• Woman suffering from pellagra. Photo reproduced with permission of the Waring Historical Library of the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC.
• Dr. Joseph Golberger with three of his four children. Reproduced with permission of the Joseph Goldberger family
• During World War II, the Merchant Marine named ships after famous Americans. One ship was named after Dr. Joseph Goldberger. Reproduced with permission of the Joseph Goldberger family.

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