Ruth Darrow
Ruth Renter Darrow (1895–1956) was an American pathologist who was the first to identify the cause of hemolytic disease of the newborn (HDN). In 1938, three years prior to the discovery of antibodies against the Rh antigen, Darrow correctly hypothesized that the disease was caused by destruction of red blood cells due to antibodies in the mother's blood. Darrow's research was inspired by her personal experiences with the disease. Biography Darrow was born in 1895. She did her undergraduate studies at Western Reserve University and graduated from Rush Medical College in Chicago, Illinois, in 1930. Five years later she had her third child, a son, with her husband Dr. Chester Darrow. Her son suffered from erythroblastosis fetalis (now known as hemolytic disease of the newborn) and died shortly after birth. Darrow began to research HDN with a dedication that her colleagues described as consuming her; she later stated that after her son's death, "the study of this disease has been ...
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