Sickle Cell Anemia

Part I of Essay
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, ....

Part II of Essay
.... Dr. Thomas P. Cooley and Dr. P. Lee described two forms of sickle cell disease: and sickle cell trait. During 1945, Dr. Linus Pauling discovered that an abnormal form of hemoglobin was the reason for the sickness in sickle cell patients. These two took a train together and started talking about . Castle told Pauling about how the cells in sickle cell patients sickled when their oxygen level is low. Paling was amazed by this conversation and did further research on the disease. After that Pauling was able to tell which patient had s ....