500 WILLETS. 



foodstuff, and it seems so apparent that the cause of pellagra is in some 

 way connected with the eating of maize, one would rather expect to 

 find the disease in the Philippine Islands. It may be added that several 

 physicians have told me that certain cases seen by them may have been 

 pellagrous. Dr. Cesar Sorerain, of Ilagan, tells me he has seen eight- 

 cases of pellagra during about twenty-two years of practice in the 

 Cagayan Valley. 



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