Some Observations on the Relative Efficacy of the Various Treatments of Pernicious Anæmia *From a thesis presented for the degree of M.B. Cantab.

Ween a special type of anaemia and the anaemias as a whole which had been known for ages past. From j^le autopsy he could find no cause for the condition, thought that it was probably due to some disorder the digestive system. In 1849 Dr. Thomas Addison, of Guy's Hospital, Scribed a disease like that reported by Combe, but 1C1 more stress on there being no previous loss of ?od from any cause whatever. He distinguished this anaemia from those due to some definite known cause y naming it idiopathic anaemia. It is this type of anaeniia which now bears his name. He suggested it might be caused by some form of fatty ^generation. The next stage in the history of pernicious anaemia ^as in 1867, when Professor Biermer, of Zurich, scnbed cases which were identical with those of dison and Combe without knowing that they had