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Bedside Rounds

A tiny podcast about fascinating stories in clinical medicine. 

 

Jul 5, 2018

The southern United States was hit by a dramatic epidemic of a mysterious disease called pellagra in the early twentieth century. This episode discusses the cultural and scientific sources of the outbreak -- from the cotton fields of the south, to the cow pastures of rural Germany, to the river basins of Uganda -- and...