Walter Clement Noel was the first person to be diagnosed with sickle cell anemia. He was diagnosed in 1910 by a man named James B. Herrick. Herrick wasn¡¦t telling the whole story though. His intern, Ernest E. Irons, actually performed the blood work on Noel. He found the abnormal type of hemoglobin or sickle hemoglobin. Sickle hemoglobin forms crystals in red blood cells and when the cells release oxygen the hemoglobin causes the red blood cells to change into sickle form. He told Herrick about them. After Noel¡¦s diagnosis he went back to Grenada, where he lived. Nine years later he died at the age of 32. Sickle cell anemia is an inherited blood disorder in which the body produces c-shaped blood cells. The only way people can get sickle cell anemia is if both their parents give them one gene with that trait. Sickle cell anemia is...