[Goethe and the mal de rosa].
Goethe described at his first Italian journey in 1786, a disease of lombardic peasants which without doubt, unknown in Germany, was Pellagra. He suspected, based on his observations, that with high probability a wrong or deficient nutrition might be the cause of this illness.
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Goethe und die "mal de rosa".