Kwashiorkor: The first description in 1933 by Cicely Williams

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Cicely Williams didn’t use the local name for the disease in this article. After she was criticized for confusing this malnutrition with pellagra, Williams published a paper in 1935 contrasting it with pellagra and used the local African name “kwashiorkor” for the disease.

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