Leucocythemia, or white cell blood : in relation to the physiology and pathology of the lymphatic glandular system. / By John Hughes Bennett.

  • Bennett, John Hughes, 1812-1875.
Date:
MDCCCLII. [1852]
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Credit: Leucocythemia, or white cell blood : in relation to the physiology and pathology of the lymphatic glandular system. / By John Hughes Bennett. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    have been stated to be increased in number. The importance of this observation will be recognised, when it is remembered, that, according to Brucke, these structures constitute the first series of the lymphatic glands. Further observations on an extended scale, however, are required, especially in France and Germany, where intestinal fevers are so common. 2. An examination of the blood in cases of bronchocele seems advisable, especially in places where it is endemic. 3. In all cases where the blood glands are extensively affected, whether from hypertrophy, scrofula, or cancer, it is possible that the blood may be found more or less altered in the relation of the colourless to the coloured corpuscles. If so, further research may explain the contradictory statements which have been advanced, having reference to the actual detection of cancer cells in the blood. 4. In all cases of abdominal tumours, as a general rule, it may be well to examine the blood microscopically. 5. This should also be done in cases of purulent infection, puer- peral fever, small-pox, glanders, syphilis, and all other disorders where the blood is affected on the one hand, and the lymphatic glan- dular system on the other. 6. A chemical analysis of the blood in such cases is desirable, as it is only by a multiplication of such observations that fair average results can be arrived at. 7. There are some cases of anemia which kill, apparently with- out obvious cause. In these it may be well to examine the lym- phatic glands. In a boy who so died in Heriot’s Hospital, under the care of Drs Christison and Andrew Wood, the only lesion dis- covered after death was induration and cell disintegration of the mesenteric glands. All this constitutes a series of researches, which can only be carried out by interesting different individuals, especially those engaged in pathological investigation in large hospitals. Such, however, may be considered as absolutely necessary information to be obtained, before the laws of nutrition and the diseases connected with their derangement can be fully understood.