Treatment of pernicious anemia by a special diet.

Introduction of raw liver diet in the treatment of pernicious anemia. This treatment ranks as one of the greatest modern advances in therapy. See also the later paper in the same journal, 1927, 89,759-66. Reprinted in Blood, 1948, 3,8-21.

In 1934 Minot and Murphy shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Whipple (see No. 3139) "for their work in liver therapy for anemia."