Abstract
THOMAS ADDISON,1 physician to Guy's Hospital, London, published his classic description of pernicious anemia in 1855. Since then nature has held almost a ninety-nine-year lease on a recognized mystery. Happily, her foreclosure of the mortgages on the lives of the tenants of this disorder has become rare since 1926. At that time George R. Minot and William P. Murphy, of Boston, discovered what was in effect a regular means of cure for pernicious anemia. Although their liver feeding and its subsequent refinements by others saved many lives, the exact cause of the disease has remained obscure. Today, however, it can . . .