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unusual facts about Pernicious anemia



Peter Tishler

Dr. William B. Castle, discoverer of intrinsic factor, introduced him to Dr. Sidney H. Ingbar with whom Tishler began work on the metabolic actions of thyroid hormone.

Vagus nerve

One serious side-effect of a vagotomy is a pernicious anemia.

William P. Murphy

William Parry Murphy (Stoughton, Wisconsin, February 6, 1892 – October 9, 1987) was an American physician who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1934 with George Richards Minot and George Hoyt Whipple for their combined work in devising and treating macrocytic anemia (specifically, pernicious anemia).


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