Blood regeneration in severe anaemia. II. Favourable influence of liver, heart and skeletal muscle in diet.

These workers showed the beneficial effect of raw beef liver upon blood regeneration in anemia. Their work paved the way for the liver diet treatment of Minot and Murphy.

In 1934 Whipple shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with George R. Minot and William Parry Murphy "for their work on liver therapy for anemia."