Minot, George Richards 1885-1950

Preparation.

George Minot's father, grandfather, and several other members of the family were all outstanding physicians in Boston, Massachusetts. After a private-school education in Boston, Minot graduated from Harvard where he received the B.A. degree in 1908 and the M.D. in 1912. In an era when postgraduate study was still unusual for physicians, he went on to intern at Massachusetts General Hospital and to take a residency at Johns Hopkins, He was especially interested in the relation of diet to disease, but he also studied problems of blood coagulation.

Study of Pernicious Anemia.

In 1915 Minot returned to Massachusetts General where his interest in blood coagulation led to a more specific study of pernicious anemia. Minot and his colleagues found that splenectomy resulted in only temporary improvement in patients with the disease.

Influence of Diabetes.

Minot began working at the Collis P....

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