Svirbely Gives Proof.

A Bitter Controversy.

Szent-Gyorgyi Recognized.

Vitamin D and Rickets.

Symptoms.

Discovery Leads to Prevention.

Pernicious Anemia.

Red Blood Cell Production.

Symptoms.

Early Treatment.

Whipple Investigates Anemia.

George Hoyt Whipple became dean of the medical school at the University of Rochester in 1921 and brought with him a research project on anemia in laboratory dogs. He found that he could improve the overall condition of the dogs by feeding them pig liver. At Rochester, George Minot and William Parry Murphy, two younger physicians, worked with Whipple on the anemia experiments. Minot and Murphy showed that a diet containing large amounts of liver was clearly beneficial to patients with anemia. Whipple, Minot, and Murphy shared the Nobel Prize in 1934 for their work on the dietary treatment of anemia. Although the pioneering research was accomplished in the 1920s, it was not until...