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...attack of diabetes in 1921 gave Dr. Minot the clue to liver as the stuff which would best regenerate the marrow's red-cell powers. Before Drs. Frederick Grant Banting and Charles Herbert Best of the University of Toronto discovered insulin (1921), Dr. Minot kept himself alive by watching his diet. Dieting made him a food faddist. Faddism made him ask his pernicious anemia patients what they ate. Thus he discovered that most never touched meat or green vegetables. From Johns Hopkins' Dr. Elmer Verner McCollum, Dr. Minot learned that liver was rich in proteins and vitamins which...
About that time (1924) Dr. Minot learned from Dr. Whipple, who soon became "my closest friend," about the effect of liver on secondary anemia. So with some confidence and Dr. Murphy's constant help, Dr. Minot began to feed pernicious anemics with liver. The results were too miraculous for hasty announcement. Drs. Minot and Murphy, with proper salute to Dr. Whipple, made their formal announcement...
Soon biochemists were able to substitute liver extracts for cooked liver. A little later biochemists learned to extract a quintessence which could be administered with a hypodermic needle...
...Minot was the first man to try liver as a cure for pernicious anemia. His researches began in 1918, but it was not until 1925 that he discovered the value of liver in treatment of the deadly disease. At this time he appointed Dr. William P. Murphy '20, Instructor in Medicine at the Harvard Medical School as his assistant. Dr. Murphy had been carrying on similar studies as to the treatment of the same disease. Three year's later, the two men were able to announce to the world that pernicious anemia had at last been conquered...
...voice when he met strangers, was badly frightened when President Theodore Roosevelt invited him to spend a night at the White House. The last year of his life he spent editing an unsuccessful monthly called Uncle Remus's Magazine. Two weeks before he died of cirrhosis of the liver in 1908, he was baptized into the Roman Catholic Church...