Nobel Prize lecture

Nobel Prize lecture

Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1935 The Organizer-Effect in Embryonic Development The experiments which finally led to the discovery of the phenomena which are now designated as “organizer-effect” were prompted by a question which actually goes back to the beginnings of developmental mechanics, indeed to the beginnings of the history of evolution in general. How does…

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Nobel Prize lecture

Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1934 The Development of Liver Therapy in Pernicious Anemia The idea that something in food might be of advantage to patients with pernicious anemia was in my mind in 1912, when I was a house officer at the Massachusetts General Hospital, as is noted in certain case records there. Ever since…

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Nobel Prize lecture

Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1934 Pernicious Anemia During the twenty-year period following 1849, in which year Thomas Addison first described the diseased condition, which he designated as “idiopathic” anemia, reports of similar cases were published by such men as Barclay, Wilks, Bristowe, Lebert, Habershon, and others. Further interest was aroused, both on the Continent and…

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