Pellagra used in a sentence

Pellagra in a sentence as a noun

And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange.

In the 1920s in America, tens of thousands of people, mostly poor, were dying of a disease called pellagra.

Ah, but eating unprocessed corn as a primary part of your diet will cause pellagra, unless you soak it in lime water.

A similar, little-known disease caused by a lack of dietary diversity is pellagra.

Funk said that pellagra was caused by B3 deficiency in 1912, but nobody listened and pellagra continued to devastate parts of the US into the 1940s.

Deficiency diseases such as beriberi, pellagra or scurvy are practically unknown in Poland.

Even when the harvest came through, staying healthy through the winter and spring was a major problem, with all sorts of vitamin deficiency diseases like scurvy, beriberi, pellagra and rickets endemic.

" Beriberi, rickets, scurvy, pellagra, kwashiorkor, Korsakoff's syndrome, and Wernicke's encephalopathy are just some of the diseases which modern medicine has cured through food.