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Assistant Secretary N '.vton, in charge of the Public Health Service, expressed great interest in the discovery and re gards it as one of the most im portant achievements of me lical science in recent years. Pellagra has been increasing al irmingly throughout the U States during the last eight years and it is estimated that 75,000 oases of the disease will have oc curred in the United States in 1915, and of this number at least 7,500 will have died before the end of the year. In manv sec tions only tuberculosis and pneu monia exceed it as a cause of death. The final epoch-making experi- ......................... S Why those Pains? 5 m M M Here is ■ testimonial unsolicited M H he fldrerlined on every itreet Mil HI corner. The man or woman IVO J that hai rheumatiim and fails MJM M H Illlliliiiliillll to keep and u»e Sloan's Llnl !]| meat ii like a drowning man flj r w refuting a rope."— A. J. Van (hUMLHI W Dykt, Lakrwttd, N. J. 5 Sloan's IJjU S 1 ment of the Public Health Service was carried out at the farm of the [ Mississippi! State! Peniten tiary about eight miles east of Jackson, Miss., and together with the previous work of the Service completes the chain in the preventi >n and cure of the disease. The work at the Miss issippi Farm has been in charge of Surgeon Joseph ti>ldbergtr and Assistant Surgeon (I. A. Wheeler of the United States Public Health Service The Farm consists of acres in the center of which is the convict camp. The final experiment was undertaken for the purpose of testing the possibility of produc ing pellagra in healthy human white adult males by a restricted, one-sided, mainly carbo-hydrate (cereal) diet. Of eleven con victs who volunteered for this ex periment, six developed a typi cal dermatitis and mild nervous gastro-intestinal symptoms. Experts including Dr. K H. Galloway, the secretary of the Mississippi State Board of Health. Dr. Nolan Stewart, formerly Superintendent of the Mississippi State Hospital for the Insane at Jackson, Dr. Marcus Hause, Professor of Dermatology. Medi cal College of the University of Tennessee, Memphis, Tenn., and Dr. Martin R. Engman, Profes sor of Dermatology in the Wash- THE DANBURY REPORTER ington Medical School, St. Louis,, Mo., declare that the disease , which was produced was true pellagra. Prior to the commencement of these experiments no history could be found of the occurrence o!' pellagra on the penitontairy farm. >n this farm are To or N' convicts. (iovernor Karl Brewer oll'ered to pardon twelve of the convicts who would volunteer for the experiment. They were as sured that they would receive proper care throughout the ex periment, and treatment should it be necessary. The diet given 'was bountiful and more than suf ficient to sustain life. It differed from that given the other con victs merely in the absence of meats, milk, eggs, beans, peas and similar pr ten foods. In every other particular the con victs selected for the experi ment were exactly as were the remaining convicts. They had the same routine of work and discip line, the same periods of recrea tion and the same water to drink. Their quarters were better than those of the other convicts. The diet given them consisted of bis cuits, fried mush, grits and brown gravy, syrup, corn bread, cab bage, sweet potatoes, rice, col lards and coffee with sugar. All componets of the dietary were of the best quality and were prop- jlsank Of'kinq^ W w rISUKS to tliimk KM many frlemlM for their liberal \/\f " n ' l ' ver *up|»ort flurlntf ItH llrHt IIUHI ~~ IK'HH yeur. u-, !lle marketing the prenent «ood eropM, we are coiillilent that a great many more of our frlemln will Hturt a checking account ami hoo»t their community l>y paying their I>IIIm with check* on their local Hank. fc&l [•or*}? Paving with check 1h the Hafent am) inont convenient way of paying IIIIIH. It reduce* mlHtake* to a mlulmuin, ami ahvii.VH glvex u receipt for the amount paid. 111 START A SAVINGS ACCOUNT |||| We f* a y Fou»" Per Cont. Interest On Time Deposits, Compounded Quarterly. HI SAFE, HONEST, COURTEOUS ||| |gj BANKING SERVICE. |gj DIRECTORS: Dr. J. Walter Xeal, T. ». l'etree, EyS*] S. W. rulllam, X. E. Pepjwr, s£#l M.T.Chilton, V. T. Oruhd, .1. \V. Rutledge. KsC&i V. T. GRABS, PRES. T. S. PETREE, CASHIER erly cooked. As a preliminary, j and to determine if the convicts were afflicted with any other dis-1 ease they were kept under ob servation from February 4th to April Oth, two and half months, on which date the one-sided diet was begun. Although the occurrence of nervous symptoms and gastro-j intestinal disturbances was noted j early, it was not until September lUth, or about five months after the beginning of the restricted diet, that the skin symptoms so characteristic of pellagra began Ito develop. These symptoms are | considered as typical, every pre ; caution being taken to make sure I that they were not caused by any other disease. The convicts up on whom the experiment was be ing made, as well as twenty jothtr convicts who were selected I as controls, were kept under con i continuous medical surveillance. S No cases of pellagra developed in camp excepting among those men who were on the restricted diet. The experimenters have there fore drawn the conclusion that I pellagra has been caused in at least six of the eleven volunteers as a result of the one sided diet on which they subsisted. On the basis of this discovery, the States of Mississippi, Louisi ana and Florida have laid their propaganda through their respec- tive boards of health for the erad ication of the disease. Fifteen white convicts, serving sentences of from four months to four years, sawed their way through the steel bars of the con vict cage at the Sandy Mush camp in Buncombe county and escaped. Three were recaptured. "Clean Up the Bowels and Keep Them Clean" There arc many remedies to be hml fur constipation, but tlie diffi culty is to procure one that acts without violence. A remedy that tiloes not perform l> y force what »h>uld he accom plished by persua sion is Dr. Miles' Laxative Tablets. After using them, Mr. N. A. Waddell, 3l S Washington St., Waco, Te*., "Almoat all my life 1 have been troubled with constipation, and havo tried many remedies, all of whl. h aeemcd to caun» pain without giving much relief. I finally tried Dr. Miles' Laxative Tablet* and found them ex cellent. Their urtlun la pleaaant ang mild, and their chocolate taMn makea them easy to take. 1 am mora than (lad to recommend them." "Clean lip the bowels and keep them clean," is the advice of all physicians, because they realize the danger resulting from habitual con stipation. Do not delay too long, but begin proper curative measures. 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The thirty-second annual ses sion of the North Carolina Teachers' Assembly will convene at Raleigh on November 24, and continue thru the 2Gth. The attendance will be large and some of the leading educators of the nation as well as the state will take part in the program. A general session of the assemb ly will be held each day follow ing which the assembly will be divided into sections to consider matters of special interest to the various grade teachers. A special Thanksgiving service will be held at the City Auditor ium, beginning at 12 o'clock. The sermon will be delivered by Bishop Thomas C. Darst, of Wilmington. Get Rid of Those Poisons In Your System. You will find Dr, King's New Life Pills a most satisfactory laxative in releasing the poisons from your system. Accumulat ed waste and poisons caune mani fold ailments unless released. Dizziness, spots before the eyes, blackness and miserable feeling generally are indication that you need Dr. Kings New Life Pills. 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