James Bryan Herrick
1861-1954
American physician and cardiologist who published the first description of sickle cell anemia, including observations of the abnormal red blood cells that characterize th...
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James Herrick was the first person to intimately study and describe the inherited genetic disease of sickle-cell anemia. In addition, Herrick was the first person to successfully treat myocardial infa...
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