Word: livers
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Died. Dr. George Richards Minot, 64, Harvard professor of medicine (1928-48) whose interest in diet, enforced by his own diabetes, led him i) to the discovery that eating liver helped people with pernicious anemia and 2) to a one-third share of the 1934 Nobel Prize for Medicine; after long illness; in Brookline, Mass...
...outstanding achievement was the discovery of the liver treatment for pernicious anemia in 1926. Not only did he realize that a liver diet could reduce the seriousness of this red-blood cell deficiency, but he spend many years extracting the effective fraction of liver and making it commercially available for the medical profession...
...received numerous honors for his work with the liver cure. In 1928, he was given an honorary Doctorate of of Science by Harvard University and, during the same year, the Association of American Physicians gave him the Kober gold medal. In this country, he has been awarded the John Scott medal of the city of Philadelphia and the gold medal of the Humane Society of Massachusetts...