Edgar Van Nuys Allen was an American doctor who was a native of Cozad, Nebraska

Nebraska

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. He is remembered for his work done as a Professor of Medicine at the Mayo Clinic

Mayo Clinic

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 in Rochester, Minnesota

Rochester, Minnesota

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Edgar Allen was a specialist in cardiovascular Medicine, and particularly known for his research of peripheral vascular disease. His name is lent to the eponymous Allen test, which is a procedure to determine blood supply to the hand. He also did extensive research and development of dicumerol, an anti-coagulant that is produced from coumarin

Coumarin

Coumarin is a fragrant chemical compound in the benzopyrone chemical class, found in many plants, notably in high concentration in the tonka bean , vanilla grass , sweet woodruff , mullein , sweet grass , cassia cinnamon and sweet clover...

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Selected writings

• Peripheral vascular diseases. Edgar van Nuys Allen and others with associates in the Mayo Clinic and Mayo Foundation; 2nd edition, Philadelphia, Saunders, 1955. 825 pages. 3rd edition by Edgar V. Allen, Nelson W. Barker and Edgar A. Hines, Jr. With the assistance of John A. Spittell, Jr. and others. Philadelphia, Saunders, 1962. 1044 pages. 4th edition, Philadelphia, Saunders, 1972. 797 pages. 5th edition 1980, 981 pages.