James Herrick

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James Bryan Herrick (August 11, 1861 - March 7, 1954) was as American doctor who is credited with the description of several important phenomena in 20th century medicine.

Biography and discoveries

Herrick studied and taught at various Chicago, Illinois hospitals, including Cook County Hospital and Presbyterian Hospital, which would become Rush University Medical Center. After graduating from Rush Medical College, he became professor of medicine there. He was equally interested in humanities: he had a lifelong passion for Geoffrey Chaucer's writings.

His first discovery, in 1904, was that of sickle-shaped red blood cells on the blood film of a medical student from Grenada. The disease he carried would be called sickle-cell disease on the basis of this finding, now known to be highly prevalent in West Africa and various other parts of the world.

Herrick's second finding was the mechanism of myocardial infarction ("heart attack"). He postulated that thrombosis in the coronary artery led to the symptoms and abnormalities of heart attacks. This was published in JAMA in 1912. In 1918 he was one of the first to encourage electrocardiography in the diagnosis of myocardial infarction.

He is commemorated in an annual award and a memorial lecture.

References

Herrick's papers

* Herrick JB. "Peculiar elongated and sickle-shaped red blood corpuscles in a case of severe anemia." Arch Intern Med 1910;6:517-21.
* Herrick JB. "Clinical features of sudden obstruction of the coronary arteries". JAMA 1912;59:2015-2019. Reproduced in JAMA 1983;250:1757-65. PMID 6350634.
* Herrick JB. "Concerning thrombosis of the coronary arteries." Trans Assoc Am Phys 1918;33:408-15.

About Herrick

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title=Homage to James B. Herrick: a contemporary look at myocardial infarction and at sickle-cell heart disease: the 32nd Annual Herrick Lecture of the Council on Clinical Cardiology of the American Heart Association.
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last=Willerson
first=J T
publication-date=1994 Apr
year=1994
title=James B. Herrick Memorial Lecture.
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last=Sobel
first=B E
publication-date=1993 Jun
year=1993
title=The structure of cardiological revolutions. James B. Herrick Lecture.
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issue=6
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publication-date=1985 Jun
year=1985
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last=Herrick
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publication-date=1983 Oct 7
year=1983
title=Landmark article (JAMA 1912). Clinical features of sudden obstruction of the coronary arteries. By James B. Herrick.
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publication-date=1980 May
year=1980
title=Classics for clinical science: from horse and buggy doctor to clinical investigator: the story of James Bryan Herrick.
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last=Burchell
first=H B
publication-date=1973 Mar
year=1973
title=The relevance of irrelevance. Remarks on receiving the James B. Herrick Award, American Heart Association.
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publication-date=1963 Nov 16
year=1963
title=JAMES B. HERRICK (1861-1954).
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publication-date=1958 May
year=1958
title=The man who discovered coronary thrombosis; James Brain Herrick, 1861-1954.
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External links

* [http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/2220.html Biography] at whonamedit.com