Sickle Cell Nomenclature
Abstract
Abstract To the Editor. —May I be permitted to add a short note to the excellent and exhaustive "Sickle Cell Symposium" published in the April issue of the Archives? The term "sickle cell disease" was first used in 1940 by me.1 I had become fascinated by this new experience with the clinical pathology of Negroes, after my immigration to New Orleans from Vienna, Austria. At that time, only the distinction of the harmless sickle cell trait (sicklemia) from the serious...