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English: Lemuel Whitley Diggs spent his career seeking a cure for sickle cell anemia. ...he was not only interested in the physiological aspects of the disease, but also in the patient’s ability to learn in school, to hold a job, and to continue in their home life. To this end, he created a database on four-by-six-inch index cards of everyone in the Memphis region, including Tennessee, Arkansas, and Mississippi ... Photograph from the 1950s.
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Source Building a body of knowledge: Sickle cell and libraries, January 2018 Journal of the Medical Library Association JMLA 106(1) DOI:10.5195/JMLA.2018.364] specifically Lemuel Whitley Diggs with his sickle cell database
Author Richard H. Nollan, richard.nollan@ttuhsc.edu, orcid.org/0000-0002-9317-8670, Executive Director of the Libraries, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX
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American pathologist Lemuel Whitley Diggs who specialized in sickle cell anemia and hematology

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