Anaemia, or blood deficiency, means that the amount of red blood cells in the blood is too low. In the 1920s Nobel Laureate George Whipple, born on this day, showed that formation of blood cells was stimulated by a diet rich in foods like liver, kidney, meat and apricots. His work led to successful treatment of anaemia.
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George Hoyt Whipple was an American physician, pathologist, biomedical researcher, and medical school educator and administrator.
Whipple shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1934 with George Richards Minot and William Parry Murphy "for their discoveries concerning liver therapy in cases of anemia".
Born: 28 August 1878, Ashland, New Hampshire, United States
Died: 1 February 1976, Rochester, New York, United States
Field: Medicine
Education: Oneida Institute, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, more
Awards: Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Notable student: Ernest William Goodpasture
Grateful thanks to Nobel Prize, Wikipedia & Google.
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