James Herrick 1084585 219424583 2008-06-15T04:17:41Z Lightbot 7178666 Units/dates/other {{Infobox Scientist |name = James Herrick |box_width = |image =Replace_this_image_male.svg |image_width =150px |caption = James Herrick |birth_date = [[August 11]], [[1861]] |birth_place = |death_date = [[March 7]], [[1954]] |death_place = |residence = |citizenship = |nationality = [[United States of America|American]] |ethnicity = |field = [[medicine]] |work_institutions = |alma_mater = |doctoral_advisor = |doctoral_students = |known_for = [[sickle-cell disease]] <br/>[[myocardial infarction]] |author_abbrev_bot = |author_abbrev_zoo = |influences = |influenced = |prizes = |religion = |footnotes = |signature = }}'''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--> *{{Citation |id = [[PMID]]:12228769 |url= http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12228769 |last=Cheng |first=Tsung O |publication-date=2002 Aug |year=2002 |title=James Herrick, sickle cell disease, and the thrombogenic theory of myocardial infarction. |volume=140 |issue=2 |periodical=J. Lab. Clin. Med. |pages=126 }} *{{Citation |id = [[PMID]]:11926226 |url= http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11926226 |last=Hammerschmidt |first=Dale E |publication-date=2002 Feb |year=2002 |title=James Herrick and the description of sickle-cell disease. |volume=139 |issue=2 |periodical=J. Lab. Clin. Med. |pages=126 }} *{{Citation |id = [[PMID]]:11727028 |url= http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11727028 |last=Haller |first=J O |last2=Berdon |first2=W E |last3=Franke |first3=H |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. |volume=31 |issue=12 |periodical=Pediatric radiology |pages=889-90 |doi = 10.1007/s002470100014 }} *{{Citation |id = [[PMID]]:10769291 |url= http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10769291 |last=James |first=T N |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. |volume=101 |issue=15 |periodical=Circulation |pages=1874-87 }} *{{Citation |id = [[PMID]]:10761818 |url= http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10761818 |last=Acierno |first=L J |last2=Worrell |first2=L T |publication-date=2000 Mar |year=2000 |title=James Bryan Herrick. |volume=23 |issue=3 |periodical=Clinical cardiology |pages=230-2 }} *{{Citation |id = [[PMID]]:9821724 |url= http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9821724 |last=Ramanan |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 |pages=601-4 }} *{{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 }} *{{Citation |id = [[PMID]]:8504520 |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 }} *{{Citation |id = [[PMID]]:2181218 |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 |issue=13 |periodical=Lakartidningen |pages=1061-2 }} *{{Citation |id = [[PMID]]:3891680 |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 }} *{{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 }} *{{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 }} *{{Citation |id = [[PMID]]:7043453 |url= http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7043453 |last=Rhoads |first=P S |publication-date= |year= |title=James B. Herrick, M.D. Born August 11, 1861--Died March 7, 1954. |volume=35 |issue=1 |periodical=The Proceedings of the Institute of Medicine of Chicago |pages=3-6 }} *{{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 }} *{{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 }} *{{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 |issue= |periodical=[[Journal of the American Medical Association|JAMA]] |pages=722-3 }} *{{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 {{DEFAULTSORT:Herrick, James}} [[Category:American physicians]] [[Category:1861 births]] [[Category:1954 deaths]] [[no:James Herrick]]