Introduction to chemical methods of clinical diagnosis / by H. Tappeiner.

  • Tappeiner, H. von (Hermann von), 1847-1927.
Date:
1898
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    malaria, influenza, and tuberculosis. Present in septic (suppurative) forms of meningitis, ifc is usually absent in the tubercular variety, and this seems to hold good of the other serons membranes. II. Eosinophilia ‘ An increase in the number of eosinophiles, with or without an increase in the total leiicocyte count,’ occiirs in some forms of leiikaemia, but is not diagnostic. Physiologically in infancy, and according to Neusser in— A. Bone affections (sarcoma, leukjemia, osteo- malacia). B. Skin diseases (pemphigus, pellagra, urticaria, exanthema of scarlet fever and syphilis). C. Diseases of genitals (especially ovaries). D. Disturbance of sympathetic nervoiis System. A case of trichinosis studied by Thayer at the Johns Hopkins Hospital yielded 64 per cent. of eosinophiles. HI. Lymphocytosis ‘ Lymphocytosis is a relative increase in the lymphocytes or yoimg cells in the blood, with or without an increase of the total leiicocyte count ’ (Cabot). It occurs physiologically in infancy, and is prolonged beyond the age at which such an increase in the lymphocytes is normal, by rickets, hereditary Syphilis, and scurvy. In adults ‘ it is most marked in chlorosis, pernicious anasmia, and the aniemia secondary to syphilis, in the later weeks of typhoid, and in lactation ’ (Cabot). An ahsolute increase of lymphocytes, associated with glandidar tumours, is diagnostic of lymphatic leukamia.