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...your perfectly splendid report of the bestowing of the Nobel Prize upon Drs. Whipple, Minot & Murphy (TIME, Nov. 5) you referred to the efficacy of apricots, peaches, and prunes in red cell restoration without indicating that it was with dried fruits that Dr. Whipple worked. I call this to your attention, knowing the widespread circulation of TIME and the multitude of cover-to-cover readers who might get the idea that fresh or canned apricots, peaches, and prunes might be just as effective as the dried fruits...
Disappointed Death leaves a glow of grateful wonder in the faces of those whom doctors cure. Doctors, who love to behold that wonder-glow, expected to see its quintessence last week in Philadelphia where Dr. George Richards Minot of Boston was scheduled to lecture on pernicious anemia at the Inter-State Postgraduate Medical Assembly. Dr. Minot, a diabetic, would not have been alive to discover the liver treatment for pernicious anemia and therefore to win a Nobel Prize (TIME, Nov. 5), if Nobel Laureate Frederick Grant Banting had not discovered the insulin treatment for diabetics. But Dr. Minot...
...George R. Minot '08, professor of Medicine at Harvard sailed yesterday on the S. S. New York for Stockholm, where he and Dr. William P. Murphy '20, also of Harvard, will receive jointly the Nobel medical price...
About that time (1924) Dr. Minot learned from Dr. Whipple, who soon became "my closest friend," about the effect of liver on secondary anemia. So with some confidence and Dr. Murphy's constant help, Dr. Minot began to feed pernicious anemics with liver. The results were too miraculous for hasty announcement. Drs. Minot and Murphy, with proper salute to Dr. Whipple, made their formal announcement...
Liver only stays death from pernicious anemics. However, with $14,000 practically in his hands to pay for further research, Dr. Minot could confidently proclaim last week: "We are on the track of a cure, a complete and final cure...