The Pellagra Portraits

Name: The Pellagra Portraits
Creator: Dana Perry, Landress
Keywords: 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Medicine in the Arts, Humans, Portraits as Topic, Paintings, 0601 history and archaeology, 06 humanities and the arts, History, 20th Century, Pellagra

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 06 Feb 2024 English Publisher:American Medical Association (AMA)Journal:JAMA, volume 331, page 375 (issn: 0098-7484,

Authors: Dana Perry, Landress;

doi: 10.1001/jama.2023.27716

pmid: 38214915

The Pellagra Portraits

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Abstract

This Arts and Medicine feature reviews the history of pellagra and recounts the role of artist and illustrator John Carroll who, in 1919, painted portraits of people with the vitamin deficiency to document in color the appearance of pellagra skin plaques.

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University of Wisconsin System
United States
University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh
United States

Keywords

Medicine in the Arts, Humans, Portraits as Topic, Paintings, History, 20th Century, Pellagra

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