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Identifier: diseasesofinfan00fisc (find matches)
Title: Diseases of infancy and childhood
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Fischer, Louis, 1864- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Children
Publisher: Philadelphia, F. A. Davis company (etc., etc.)
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Hunter first reported the presence of a deposit of iron inthe hepatic cells. There is also an anaemia of the internal organs. Some-times capillary haemorrhages are seen in the various organs. Fatty degen-eration is also described as a frequent pathological finding. General Symptoms.âThese are the same as previously described in thearticle on anaemia, although all symptoms are of a more severe type. Epi-staxis, in addition to local purpuric spots, denotes the tendency to haemor-rhages. An interference of the return circulation to the heart is manifestedby oedema of the feet and ankles. The urine contains neither albumin norcasts. Special Symptoms.âThe blood will furnish the real means of diag-nosis. The haemoglobin may sometimes be as low as 20 to 30 per cent.The erythrocytes are reduced in number; 2,000,000 is a fair average redblood count in this condition, although Lenhartz^ refers to a reduction of ^ LenhartzâClinical Microscopy, page 156. F. A. Davis Co., 1904. PLATE XXXII
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A.âProgressive Pernicious An.^mia. The case ended fatally in sixweeks; cause unknown-, possibly in connection with typhoid fever. Ehrlichstriacid stain. Zeiss ocular 1, oil immersion Vi-. o, normal erythrocytes:6, megalocytes; c, microcytes; (/, marked poikilocytosis: c, niegaloblast;/, polynuclear neutrophilic leucocyte. (Lenhartz-Brooks.) B.âLiENAL (Splenic) T.euk.-emia. a, normal erythrocyte: ?). nucleatederythrocyte, nucleus eccentrically situated; c. polynuclear neutrophilic leuco-cytes; d, eosinophilic (myelo) cell. The wsinophilic cell at the top hasbeen ruptured and the granula dispersed. Two small greenish-blue nuclei,perhaps small lymphocytes. (Lenhartz-Brooks.) (â .âLlENAL (Splenic) Leuk.TiIMIA. a1, megal(UWnsl-. a. novnuil erythro-cyte; a2, megaloblast. with anipniic degeneration; b. pcdynuclear leucocytes;c, marrow cells (myelocytes); d, large lymphocyte. ( Lenhartz-Brooks. 1 D.âAcute LEUK.ii;TMi.\. This )>icture is made from two ditVerent. rapidlyfatal, clini
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