Anaemia / by J.H. Bryant.

  • Bryant, John Henry.
Date:
1901
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Credit: Anaemia / by J.H. Bryant. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A third case, seen at my house was a male, set. 32. Blood very pale. Bed blood corpuscles ... ... 1,650,000 There is one point of very great interest in connection with pernicious anaemia, and that is its similarity, as far as the blood changes are concerned, to some of the anaemias which are due to the presence of intestinal parasites, and I refer in particular to the anchylostomum duo- denale and the bothriocephalus latus. These diseases have been carefully studied by German observers, who have found that even to the high colour index of the red blood corpuscles, the preponderance of megaloblasts amongst the nucleated red blood corpuscles, and the remark- able reduction in the number of red discs, the blood may be compared with that of pernicious anaemia, in fact, to quote Ehrlich and Lazarus, “ Severe bothriocephalus anaemia may be des- cribed as a pernicious anaemia with a known and removable cause.” The diagnosis from pernicious anaemia, there- fore, can only be made by finding evidence of ihe presence of the parasite by a careful examination of the faeces for the ova, and in the case of the bothriocephalus latus of seg- ments of the parasite. Although the condition of the blood in pernicious anaemia and these parasitic diseases Haemoglobin White blood corpuscles... ...28per cent. 3,591