Lengthy treatment needed to treat Whipple's disease

Published 04/27/08

The actor who played George Whipple the fretful grocer died last fall, and I was reminded not of his Charmin toilet paper commercials, but of Whipple's disease.

The disease is not named for George Whipple, television icon, but for Dr. George Whipple, professor at Johns Hopkins University.

In 1907, Dr. Whipple described a chronic illness characterized by diarrhea, anemia, malnutrition, weight loss and arthritis. He thought the mysterious illness might be an unusual metabolic disorder.

He was wrong, but that did not prevent him from later winning a Nobel Prize for his work on pernicious anemia.

Decades later, Dr....

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McSweegan is a player - 2008-05-20 09:25:38

Jeepers, If you stupid Lyme crooks would stop playing the Primers Shell Game, more people would be aware of how to detect what illness people have:
http://www.actionlyme.org/PRIMERSHELLGAME.htm

That's very famous and intuitive of you Ed. Now tell us again about how we can have a vaccine for Relapsing Fever, since it was your idea in the first place to libel and defraud the United States with your US Navy-Outing Letter to Senator Goldwater:
http://www.actionlyme.org/GOLDWATER_LETTER.htm
so you could divert all the funding to your crooked, profiteering friends, who know well, the Shell Game.

Kathleen M. Dickson
Former Pfizer Analytical Chemist

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