Puerperal Anæmia

Anæmia in Practice: Pernicious Anæmia

Thirteen years ago, Drs. G. R. Minot and W. P. Murphy published a paper in the Journal of the American Medical Association describing the effect of liver diet in pernicious anaemia. This was a clinical study, but the results were striking enough to attract a considerable amount of attention, not only of clinicians but of laboratory workers as well. The immediate direct result was a revolutionar...

Hæmolytic Anæmia

Cases of hemolytic ansemia, other than of 'malarial origin, evoke considerable clinical interest. Two such cases are here recorded; the first seemed to arise in association with ulcerative colitis and the second was possibly a case of congenital acholuric jaundice. Case 1.?Mahmud Ali, male, aged 23 years, was admitted on 27th July, 1939, into the Mayo Hospital, Lahore, with complaints of diarrh...

Pernicious Anæmia

Our knowledge of the pathology and aetiology of pernicious anaemia has undergone great modification and advance in recent years, and the present volume is a summary of the vast amount of work that lias been done on the subject. It includes all the important advances that have been made in our understanding of this puzzling disease, up to about the end of 1929. When a work of this nature, dealin...

Macrocytic Anæmia

Coolie Anæmia

tea estates, anaemia is one of the chief diseases to be contended with. It wholly or partially incapacitates the sufferer from work, and in itself not infrequently causes death; while at the same time it strongly predisposes to such diseases as dysentery which, in the ansemic coolie, runs always a severe and often a fatal coarse. Thus coolie anaemia comes to be a very serious condition, and any...