Word: anemia
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Following closely upon the discovery of Thomas H. Ham, assistant in Medicine, and William B. Castle '17, professor of Medicine, that most forms of anemia result from stagnation of the blood within the blood vessels, Dr. William P. Murphy, associate in Medicine, admitted last night that he has recently made "considerable progress" in perfecting the remedy for anemia...
Murphy, Dr. George R. Minot '08, professor of Medicine, and Dr. George H. Whipple, of Rochester University, shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1934 when they discovered that liver and liver extracts are good remedies for anemia...
...that he himself made the first liver extracts in water form, and that most of the early work along this line was done in his laboratory. "I had some experimental evidence that liver was useful in maturing cells," he said, "and I became interested in applying this fact to anemia...
...treating pernicious anemia, which used to be fatal before Murphy's research, only one cubic centimeter of the modern extracts are necessary to last the patient for three or four weeks. Most of the modern extracts are parenteral (or injected between the muscles...
...application of their observations side in explaining the increased destruction of blood and the anemia noticed in the newborn infant or in congenital hemolytic jaundice. Dr. Ham stated last night at his home that although the investigations were still in a very primary stage , they might prove extremely valuable to the medical profession...