Up for auction a VERY RARE! "American Heart Association" Robert Wilkins Hand Written Letter Dated 1982. 

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Robert Wallace Wilkins (December 4, 1906

– April 9, 2003) was an American medical investigator and educator, made many

contributions in the research of hypertension and cardiovascular disease. He

was the president of the American Heart Association in

1957 and received its Gold Heart Award in 1962. Wilkins received the Albert Lasker Award in

1958 for his research.

He

has been credited with introducing the antipsychotic and antihypertensive drug reserpine to the United States in 1950.