Maxwell Myer Wintrobe: New history and a new appreciation

Texas Heart Institute Journal

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 328-335

  Fred, Herbert L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Anemia classification; Hematology history; History of medicine, 20th cent; Schools, medical history organization and administration; Wintrobe, MM

Indexed keywords

HEMATOLOGY; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL PROFESSION; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; REVIEW;

HEMATOLOGY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; PORTRAITS AS TOPIC; UNITED STATES;

EID: 35848955867     PISSN: 07302347     EISSN: 15266702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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2. Spivak JL. Maxwell Wintrobe, in his own words. Br J Haematol 2003;121:224-32.
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4. Wintrobe MM, Landsberg JW. A standardized technique for the blood sedimentation test. Am J Med Sci 1935;189:102-15.
5. Wintrobe MM. Macroscopic examination of the blood: discussion of its value and description of the use of a single instrument for the determination of sedimentation rate, volume of packed red cells, leukocytes and platelets, and of icterus index. Am J Med Sci 1933;185:58-71.
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8. Wintrobe MM. The volume and hemoglobin content of the red blood corpuscle: simple method of calculation, normal findings, and value of such calculations in the anemias. Am J Med Sci 1929;177:513-23.
9. Wintrobe MM. Classification of the anemias on the basis of differences in the size and hemoglobin content of the red corpuscles. Proc Soc Exp Biol Med 1930;27:1071-3.
10. Wintrobe MM. Anemia: classification and treatment on the basis of differences in the average volume and hemoglobin content of the red corpuscles. Arch Intern Med 1934;54:256-8.
11. Wintrobe MM. The erythrocyte in man. Medicine 1930;9:195-251.
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14. Fessas P, Wintrobe MM, Cartwright GE. Angiokeratoma corporis diffusum universale (Fabry); first American report of a rare disorder. AMA Arch Intern Med 1955;95:469-81.
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16. Wintrobe MM. The search for an experimental counterpart of pernicious anemia. AMA Arch Intern Med 1957;100:862-9.
17. Goodman LS, Wintrobe MM, Dameshek W, Goodman MJ, Gilman A, McLennan MT. Nitrogen mustard therapy. Use of methyl-bis(beta-chloroethyl)amine hydrochloride and tris(beta-chloroethyl)amine hydrochloride for Hodgkin's disease, lymphosarcoma, leukemia and certain allied and miscellaneous disorders. J Am Med Assoc 1946;132:126-32. [Reproduced in JAMA 1984;251:2255-61.]
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20. Wintrobe MM, Cartwright GE, Palmer JG, Kuhns WJ, Samuels LT. Effect of corticotrophin and cortisone on the blood in various disorders in man. AMA Arch Intern Med 1951;88:310-36.
21. Smiley RK, Cartwright GE, Wintrobe MM. Fatal aplastic anemia following chloramphenicol (chloromycetin) administration. J Am Med Assoc 1952;149:914-8.
22. Wintrobe MM. The therapeutic millennium and its price: adverse reactions to drugs. In: Talalay P, Murnaghan JH, editors. Drugs in our society. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press; 1964. p. 107-14.
23. Cartwright GE, Wintrobe MM. Blood disorders caused by drug sensitivity. AMA Arch Intern Med 1956;98:559-66.
24. Wintrobe MM. The problems of drug toxicity in man - a view from the hematopoietic system. Ann N Y Acad Sci 1965;123:316-25.
25. Wintrobe MM. Blood, pure and eloquent: a story of discovery, of people, and of ideas. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company; 1980.
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