1920's Medicine and Health | Whipple, George Hoyt 1878-1976

CONQUEROR OF PERNICIOUS ANEMIA

Early Career.

The work of George Hoyt Whipple was often ridiculed, but it saved thousands of lives and led to the understanding of organisms as intricately interconnected systems. Whipple attended the Johns Hopkins Medical School in Baltimore, Maryland, and earned his medical degree in 1905. His primary interest was in the research of blood and liver disorders, which he studied with a colleague, John H. King. Whipple and King concentrated on the study of obstructive jaundice (icterus), a disease in which liver damage results in the release of yellowish bile pigments that appear in the skin of the patient. Whipple continued his study of the disease with Charles Hooper at the University of California in San Francisco. In 1914 their research led them to consider the possibility that the liver might be involved in pernicious anemia.

Pernicious Anemia.

Pernicious anemia is a type of...