The History of Pylagra

In northern Italy, there was a disease, an epidemic reaching called pylagra. That word, we get from a dot an Italian dialect, it literally means rough skin. And the disease of rough skin started usually with farmers farmers wives who start with like a skin scale on their hand. It's starting in spring, it would kind of go away later in the summer, but then it would return the next year. Eventually, it kind of overtakes their whole body. Their their hands would become these these hideous appendages. They would they would get diarrhea, they would become kind of demented and confused. And eventually, they would die.

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