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HERRICK, James Bryan (1861 – 1954)

HERRICK, James Bryan (1861 – 1954)

1861 – 1954

4 entries in the GMN corpus.

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1910 CE

#3133

Peculiar elongated and sickle-shaped red blood corpuscles in a case of severe anemia.

Identification of the sickle-cell type of anemia. Abstract "This case is reported because of the unusual blood findings, no duplicate of which I have ever seen described. Whether the blood picture represents merely a …

1912 CE

#2839

Clinical features of sudden obstruction of the coronary arteries.

Outstanding description of coronary thrombosis. Herrick was the first to describe and diagnose coronary thrombosis in a living person; he showed that sudden coronary occlusion is not necessarily fatal. Reprint in Will…

1919 CE

#12248

Thrombosis of the coronary arteries.

"...includes electrocardiographic tracings of a 42-year-old physician who died "after coronary obstructive symptoms" and of a dog following experimental ligation of a coronary artery. This finding "led Herrick to conc…

1942 CE

#3159

A short history of cardiology.