Duke University to Study Origin of Pernicious Anemia, June 19, 1926

Medical Research Fellowship Established. . . Effort to Ascertain Origin of Disease Which Took Life of J.B. Duke

By International News Service

Durham, June 18—In an effort to ascertain the origin of the disease which took the life of James B. Duke, Duke University has established a medical research fellowship, it was announced here.

The disease is pernicious anemia, a malady about which very little is known aside from the fact that it takes annually a toll of about five persons in every 100,000 and is invariably fatal.

Thus far, the disease has not only resisted all attempts at treatment but all efforts directed toward finding the real cause, according to medical authorities. It has been recognized sinc 1822, but was first systematically described in 1822 by Dr. Thomas Addison, it is said.

Duke University’s research will be in charge of Dr. Beaumont S. Cornell, until recently of Toronto University. Cornell’s activities will be directed toward further scientific attempts to demonstrate the cause of the disease, it is announced.

Editor’s Note: Pernicious anemia is caused by a deficiency of Vitamin B-12.

From page 3 of The Concord Daily Tribune, Saturday, June 19, 1926

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