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The Story <strong>of</strong> Sickle Cell Disease<br />

• 1910: Dr. James Herrick and his intern,<br />

Ernest Irons, described and linked clinical<br />

symptoms to abnormal hemoglobin, termed<br />

sickle cell anemia (in 1922)<br />

• First patient: Walter Clement Noel, a 20 year<br />

old dental student from Granada studying at<br />

the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong> Chicago

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