The condition was first described in medical literature by Oates and Sjoerdsma (1960). Oates found that patients developed certain neuroexcitatory features after receiving the amin acid tryptophan...
The first published description of SCD was given by Herrick (1910). Herrick took a sample of blood from Walter Noel Clement, a dental student, who had moved to Chicago from the West Indies in 1904 to...