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Strange Country


Sometimes you need to have a glass of wine, cuppa whatever and listen to a good old weird story. Musical score Resting Place by A Cast of Thousands.

Apr 13, 2023

Hey Readers! Who has pellagra?? Would you know if you did? Don’t worry you won’t get it. But you will learn on this episode what pellagra was, why it killed 100,000 Americans, and took many dedicated hours to figure out the cure. Thank you for always listening and wondering alongside our stories. Why is it that Beth talks abut the taint so much?

Theme music: Big White Lie by A Cast of Thousands

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Swan, Jeremy. “Dr. Joseph Goldberger & the War on Pellagra.” Office of NIH History and Stetten Museum, 3 May 2022, https://history.nih.gov/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=8883184. Accessed 10 April 2023.