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Skepticism nonetheless persisted in the Southern medical community until
1937, when Conrad Elveheim showed that the vitamin niacin cured pellagra in
dogs. Later studies by Tom Spies, Marion Blankenhorn, and Clark Cooper
established that niacin also cured pellagra in humans, for which
Time
Magazine dubbed them its 1938 Men of Science in comprehensive science.
Goldberger deserves the credit for his initial discovery of the cause of and
cure for pellagra, though he died of cancer prior to Elveheim’s proof of his
theory.
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