James Herrick
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{{Infobox Scientist
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|birth_date = [[August 11]], [[1861]]
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|death_date = [[March 7]], [[1954]]
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|nationality = [[United States of America|American]]
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|known_for = [[sickle-cell disease]] <br/>[[myocardial infarction]]
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}}'''James Bryan Herrick''' ([[August 11]], [[1861]] - [[March 7]], [[1954]]) was as [[United States of America|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 cell]]s 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 [[Journal of the American Medical Association|JAMA]] in 1912. In 1918 he was one of the first to encourage [[electrocardiogram|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''. [[Journal of the American Medical Association|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===
* Hammerschmidt DE. About the cover illustration: James Herrick and the description of sickle-cell disease. J Lab Clin Med 2002;139:126. <!--not indexed-->
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|title=James Herrick, sickle cell disease, and the thrombogenic theory of myocardial infarction.
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*{{Citation
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|publication-date=2001 Dec
|year=2001
|title=Sickle cell anemia: the legacy of the patient (Walter Clement Noel), the interne (Ernest Irons), and the attending physician (James Herrick) and the facts of its discovery.
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|issue=12
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*{{Citation
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|publication-date=2000 Apr 18
|year=2000
|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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|issue=15
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*{{Citation
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|publication-date=2000 Mar
|year=2000
|title=James Bryan Herrick.
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|issue=3
|periodical=Clinical cardiology
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*{{Citation
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|url= http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9821724
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|first=S V
|publication-date=1998 Oct
|year=1998
|title=James Bryan Herrick: a man of intellectual muscle.
|volume=62
|issue=10
|periodical=Connecticut medicine
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*{{Citation
|id = [[PMID]]:8149552
|url= http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8149552
|last=Willerson
|first=J T
|publication-date=1994 Apr
|year=1994
|title=James B. Herrick Memorial Lecture.
|volume=89
|issue=4
|periodical=Circulation
|pages=1875-81
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*{{Citation
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|url= http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8504520
|last=Sobel
|first=B E
|publication-date=1993 Jun
|year=1993
|title=The structure of cardiological revolutions. James B. Herrick Lecture.
|volume=87
|issue=6
|periodical=Circulation
|pages=2047-54
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*{{Citation
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|url= http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2181218
|last=Hakulinen
|first=E
|publication-date=1990 Mar 28
|year=1990
|title=[The man behind the syndrome. James B Herrick: the discoverer of sickle cell anemia. His first case report received scant interest--only in the 1950's was the role of "moon-crescent" shape considered]
|volume=87
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*{{Citation
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|url= http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3891680
|last=Breathnach
|first=C S
|publication-date=1985 Jun
|year=1985
|title=Biographical sketches--53. Herrick.
|volume=78
|issue=6
|periodical=Irish medical journal
|pages=173
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*{{Citation
|id = [[PMID]]:6350634
|url= http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6350634
|last=Herrick
|first=J B
|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.
|volume=250
|issue=13
|periodical=[[Journal of the American Medical Association|JAMA]]
|pages=1757-65
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*{{Citation
|id = [[PMID]]:6339113
|url= http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6339113
|last=Ross
|first=R S
|publication-date=1983 May
|year=1983
|title=A parlous state of storm and stress. The life and times of James B. Herrick.
|volume=67
|issue=5
|periodical=Circulation
|pages=955-9
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*{{Citation
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|title=James B. Herrick, M.D. Born August 11, 1861--Died March 7, 1954.
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|periodical=The Proceedings of the Institute of Medicine of Chicago
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*{{Citation
|id = [[PMID]]:6990757
|url= http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6990757
|last=Harvey
|first=A M
|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.
|volume=68
|issue=5
|periodical=Am. J. Med.
|pages=639-41
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*{{Citation
|id = [[PMID]]:4571061
|url= http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/4571061
|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.
|volume=47
|issue=3 Suppl
|periodical=Circulation
|pages=I1-6
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*{{Citation
|id = [[PMID]]:14053375
|url= http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14053375
|publication-date=1963 Nov 16
|year=1963
|title=JAMES B. HERRICK (1861-1954).
|volume=186
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|periodical=[[Journal of the American Medical Association|JAMA]]
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*{{Citation
|id = [[PMID]]:13525932
|url= http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/13525932
|last=SIEGEL
|first=R
|publication-date=1958 May
|year=1958
|title=The man who discovered coronary thrombosis; James Brain Herrick, 1861-1954.
|volume=55
|issue=5
|periodical=The Journal of the Medical Society of New Jersey
|pages=201-4
}}
*{{Citation
|id = [[PMID]]:13216803
|url= http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/13216803
|last=IRONS
|first=E E
|publication-date=1954
|year=1954
|title=James Bryan Herrick, 1861-1954.
|volume=67
|issue=
|periodical=Trans. Assoc. Am. Physicians
|pages=15-9
}}
==External links==
* [http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/2220.html Biography] at whonamedit.com
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