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William Dameshek
American physician and hameatologist, 1900-1969.
Associated eponyms:
Cooley's anaemia
A lethal anaemia resulting from inheritance of a recessive trait responsible for interference with the rate of haemoglobin synthesis.
Spaet-Dameshek syndrome
A syndrome marked by repeated severe, prolonged infections of the skin, mouth, throat, ears, paranasal sinuses, and lungs.
Biography:
In 1946 William Dameshek was founding editor of the journal Blood, published by PA Saunders in Philadelphia. The Dameshek Prize from American Society of Hematology is named in his honour.
Bibliography:
- Louis Sanford Goodman (1906-), M. M. Winthrobe, W. Dameshek, M. J. Goodman and M. T. McLennan:
Nitrogen mustard therapy. Use of methyl-bis (beta-chloroethyl(amine hydrochloride and tris(beta-chloroethylalime hydrochlroride of Hodgkin’s disease, lymphosarcoma, leukemia, and certain allied and miscellaneous disorder.
The Journal of the American Medical Association, Chicago, 19476, 105: 475-476.
- W. Dameshek and Steven Otto Schwarts (1911-):
Hemolysins as the cause of clinical and experimental hemolytic anemias.
American Journal of the Medical Sciences, Thorofare, N.J., 1938, 196: 769-792.
- W. Dameshek, Frederick Gunz..
Leukemia. New York, Grune & Stratton, 1958. 420 pp With 142 figures.
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