Lack of concentration or memory blips: “This can be partly because of pernicious anemia, but probably more likely a result of the effects of B12 on the brain and nervous system,” Dr. Green notes.

Victims of pernicious anemia cannot, for reasons not yet entirely solved, manufacture red blood cells. To aid this manufacture Drs. George R. Minot and William P. Murphy devised a diet rich in ...

The Treatment of Pernicious Anemia: A Nine-Year Study of Maintenance Requirements, with a Note on the Efficacy of Purified Liver Extracts in the Control of Neural Lesions ...

Pernicious anemia is most commonly caused by the fact that autoimmune reactions destroy the cells that are responsible for the production of the intrinsic factor.

A treatment for pernicious anemia, devised by Drs. George R. Minot and William P. Murphy and applied by Dr. Walter W. Palmer of the Manhattan College of Physicians & Surgeons, has shown such ...