"Admissions" is a page from the University of Virginia Hospital Admissions book, October 1910, showing on line two a diagnosis for sickle cell anemia — "crescentic anemia" — just after that syndrome was first identified.  [patient names have been erased to comply with HIPPA]

Historical Collections & Services, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, University of Virginia

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