Deficiency DiseasesDeficiency diseases Allberiberigoiterkwashiorkorpellagrapernicious anemiaricketsscurvyAbout 4,000 U.S. WWI draftees rejected for having enormous goitersGoiter belt in United States in early 20th centuryMore than two million sailors may have perished from scurvy over the centuriesGeorge Minot describes discovery of diet cure for pernicious anemiaChildren with rickets from 1920s ViennaMore than 1,000 people died in 1945 from deficiency diseases in the United StatesConvicts get pardons for pellagra experimentsCicely Williams (1893-1992)Kwashiorkor: Cicely Williams uses the name for the first time in 1935Kwashiorkor: The first description in 1933 by Cicely WilliamsJoseph Goldberger (1874 – 1929)How Vitamin D and the Sun Came to Be Linked by R.W. ChesneyVitamin D, cod-liver oil, sunlight, and rickets: a historical perspective by Kumaravel RajakumarHistory of Scurvy & Vitamin C by Kenneth CarpenterScurvy: classic signsScurvy: Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess (1920)Francis Glisson (1597-1677)Polar Journeys: The Role of Food and Nutrition in Early Exploration by Robert E. FeeneyChristiaan Eijkman (1858-1930)Harriette Chick (1875-1977)David Marine (1888-1976)James Lind (1716-1794)Alfred Hess (1875-1933)Harry Steenbock (1886- 1967)Edward B. Vedder (1878 – 1952)
