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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![nipple line. The husband gave the following history on 29th August, 1907 “After leaving Guy’s, my wife went to a convalescent home, which she left very weak and ill. She rallied slightly when at home, being some days comparatively well, others ill and depressed. She had a very bad colour, coppery shade. She suddenly lost consciousness, and finally died on the 1st April, 1905.” The blood counts were as follows :— Date. Red corpuscles, per CUD. mm. Red corpus- cles, percent, of normal. Haemoglobin, per cent, of normal. Colour index. Leucocytes per cub. mrn. Thoma Leitz. Haldane. Thoma Leit 11 Jan., 1905 1,856,000 37 55 1-487 4,200 7 Feb., „ 2,040,000 41 50 1-220 — 22 „ 2,020,000 40 55 1-375 4,0C0 Note.—January 11th: S. 40, L. 6-4, P. 53, E. 0-6. February 22nd; S. 35, L. 4-4, P. 60, E. 0-6. The temperature chart was as follows ; — Anne P ,QlWE|MEjMEjMEjME|MLIh6.M£IME^£|MEjM£{WHWC|HE]MWDW£^C}MejHEyiE|MDHyEpPMHHE^fe{HC>1t^E|*101 99 98 97 Pulse Resp. Case 47.—Ref. No., Vol. 192, No. 82.—John K., set. 55, a groom and gardener, was under the care of Dr. Taylor from February 3rd, 1905, to April 14th, 1905. He came in for giddiness and weakness, and marked numbness in hands and feet. He had always led a healthy outdoor life, and drank two pints of beer a day regularly. He gave only a history of three weeks' illness, beginning with an attack of severe vomiting ; and he had been in bed for two weeks previous to his admission to hospital. His weight was list, mbs., and he did not look wasted. There was slight oedema of the ankles, a bruit de diable in the neck, and a hsemic bruit at the cardiac impulse, the heart sounds being barely audible elsewhere. Although his severe illness was only of three weeks’ duration, he stated that for over twelve months past he had had a feeling of numbness and tingling in his hands and feet, which had been getting worse, especially in cool weather. Latterly he had been subject to attacks of sweating, giddiness, and blurred vision when at work, so that he has several times had to clutch hold of something to prevent himself from falling. He had had no actual “ fits.” Three weeks ago, when feeding the calves before breakfast, he was suddenly seized with vomiting, and once since then he has had a sudden attack of nausea during which he tried to vomit, but could not. He was a strongly-built man, but very pale and yellow, and too weak to walk up the ward. When questioned, he stated that he had himself noticed the yellow pallor coming and going for](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22425044_0084.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
