Sixty-eight cases of pernicious anaemia / by Herbert French.
- French, Herbert Stanley, 1875-1951.
- Date:
- [1909]
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Sixty-eight cases of pernicious anaemia / by Herbert French. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![Tjvrexia had set in. the patient became comatose with a subnormal temperature, and died from respiratory failure. The post-mortem examination .showed oedema of lungs, and recent acute pericarditis without free fluid, and tabby-cat striation of the heart muscle. The liver exhibited the typical - ■ - ■ • The bone marrow of the femur was like red currant Prussian blue reaction. ±ue uuuc —- —-—. ,— ielly in colour and consistency, and microscopically it showed numerous iWleated red cells in every stage of formation. The blood counts were as Date. Red corpuscles per cub. mni. Red corpus- cles per cent, of normal Haemoglobin, per cent, of normal. Colour index. Leucocytes per cub. mm. 14 March, 1908 Thoma Leitz. 750,000 15 Haldane. 20 1-333 Thoma Leitz. 3,125 2 .\pril, 28 „ 1,350,000 27 45 1-666 4,000 2,440,000 49 72 1-469 5,160 8 July, 4 August, „ 9 1,400,000 28 21 0-750 — 1,400,000 28 40 1-428 3,b00 20,000 The differentiiil leucocyte count was as follows:—S. 62, L 1, P. 37, E. 0. In films, both on April 2nd, and on July 8th, there was marked poikilocytosis, and polycromatosis. Megalocytes were abundant. There were also numerous megaloblasts, some with lobulated nuclei, and a few normo- blasts. Basophilia of the red cells was very marked. The temperature chart was as follows :— IC.1WE>1E)WE] mmifimvmmm’AjminmiMmamamtim 102 101 105](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22425044_0109.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
