SPLENIC 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...

Venous Hum in a Case of Splenic Anæmia with Portal Obstruction

an alcoholic soldier. Cruveilhier (1835) later reported this case and Trousseau (1868) gave the first good description of the condition. In Cruveilhier-Baumgarten syndrome where there is hepatic atrophy with a little fibrosis and patent umbilical vein, venous hum has occasionally been heard in the umbilical-xiphoid region. Armstrong and his associates (1942) suggest that Cruveilhier-Baumgarten ...

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...

Splenic Anæmia (Banti's Disease) *From the Transactions of the S. I. Branch of B. M. Assoc.

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...