CASTLE, William Bosworth (1897 – 1990)
1897 – 1990
2 entries in the GMN corpus.
1929 CE
#3143
Observations on the etiologic relationship of achylia gastrica to pernicious anemia. I. The effect of the administration to patients with pernicious anemia of the contents of the normal human stomach recovered after the ingestion of beef muscle.
Castle showed pernicious anemia to be due to absence from the gastric juice of a substance (Castle’s intrinsic factor, hemopoietin) that reacts with an extrinsic factor present in many foodstuffs to form the ant…
1931 CE
#3145.1