When the American Chemical Society meets at Atlanta April 7, Vitamin G will be given prime position on the program. Most interested will be the poor of the South who suffer from pellagra, the disease which Vitamin G is famed for fighting. for preventing.*
Since 1906 pellagra has been a horror to the South. In the springtime it strikes people whose winter diet has been confined too closely to corn and pork. The first symptoms: dizziness, headaches, diarrhoea, painful skin rash.
In the fall these symptoms disappear only to come back the following spring with...
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