Sickles Cell Anemia in Children (10 pgs) In 1904 a hospital intern at The Presbyterian Hospital in Chicago Illinois, Dr. Earnest Irons, who was the first physician to describe sickle cells, wrote a report on Walter Clement Noel’s blood. Also in 1904, Dr. James B. Herrick, a Chicago Physician, treated a twenty- year-old college student from the West Indian islands of Grenada. The young man went to Herrick complaining of shortness of breath, heart problems, abnormal pain, and aches and pains in his muscles. The patient explained to Herrick that he is tired al the time, he said he had headaches, he get dizzy sometimes and have had ulcers in his legs. Dr. Herrick took notes and took a sample of the man blood and viewed it under a microscope. The man blood cell where long and curved instead of round. The blood shapes on the microscope where not blood cell of anemia. ....

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