Study & Research America 1920-1929: Medicine and Health

1878-1976
Conqueror of Pernicious Anemia

Early Career.

Pernicious Anemia.

A Treatment for Anemia Is Found.

The Importance of Iron.

Nobel.

In addition to the discovery of a treatment for pernicious anemia, Whipple also described several basic recycling enzymatic pathways within the body and improved the understanding of human liver and blood physiology. In 1934 Whipple's lifesaving research was recognized when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine with George Minot and William Murphy.

Sources:

Tyler Wasson, ed., Nobel Prize Winners (New York: Wilson, 1987), pp. 1112-1114;

George Whipple, "Blood Regeneration in Severe Anemia, II, Favorable Influence of Liver, Heart and Skeletal Muscle in Diet," American Journal of Physiology, 72 (1925): 408-418.

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