Observations on the urine in pernicious anaemia : I. Excretion of pathological urobilin. II. Excretion of blood pigment. III. Excretion of iron in health and disease / by William Hunter.

  • Hunter, William, 1861-1937.
Date:
[1889]
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Credit: Observations on the urine in pernicious anaemia : I. Excretion of pathological urobilin. II. Excretion of blood pigment. III. Excretion of iron in health and disease / by William Hunter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    f In the recognition of this fact, as to the nature of this form of anaemia, and of the further fact that, as I have endeavoured to show elsewhere, this destruction is initiated in the portal system, and depends upon changes occurring within the gastro-intestinal tract, is to be found the great indication for that treatment of the disease which will most probably be of value. Having established, as I think these various observations conclusively do, what is the nature of the morbid process within the blood, our next endeavour must be to recognise and combat the changes within the gastro-intestinal tract on which they depend. This subject I hope to deal with in a future paper, based on further investigations either already made or still in progress.