Is pernicious anaemia a special disease? / by William Hunter.

  • Hunter, William, 1861-1937.
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[1888]
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    IS PERNICIOUS ANEMIA A SPECIAL DISEASE ? BY WILLIAM HUNTEE, M.D., F.E.S.EDIN. John Lucas Walker Student of the University of Cambridge. The author has for some time been engaged on a series of investigations, pathological and experimental, on the nature of the disease commonly described as pernicious or progressive per- nicious ancemia. The detailed results of these investigations will be published elsewhere : in the present paper it is proposed to discuss the preliminary question—Is pernicious anaemia a special disease ? Are its features, clinical and pathological, sufficiently marked off from those of other apparently similar conditions to justify us in classing it apart from them ? According to Quincke,^ and others who have followed him, per- nicious anaemia is merely an extreme condition, differing from other forms of aneemia only in its intensity: it may arise in many different ways, it maybe the result of various morbid con- ditions: loss of blood, long-continued discharges, defective nutri- tion, provided they are of sufficient intensity or duration, may all be factors in its production. Any anaemia may according to this view become progressive and pernicious provided on the one 1 Med. Times, ii. 1876, 374, 428 : D. Archiv f. kl.in. Med. xx, (1877). A