An investigation into the pathology of pernicious anaemia / by William Hunter.

  • Hunter, William, 1861-1937.
Date:
[1888]
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Credit: An investigation into the pathology of pernicious anaemia / by William Hunter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PERNICIOUS ANAEMIA. INTRODUCTORY. I propose in this paper to record the results of a series of investigations which I have recently made with the object of throwing light on the pathology of the disease variously termed 'progressive pernicious or pernicious anaemia. My investigations have been of a twofold nature—partly clinical, partly pathological. It is with the latter that I propose here specially to deal. My observations have had reference to the question how far we must believe in the existence of this form of anaemia as a special disease. What is pernicious anaemia ? Is it a special disease with, features clinical and pathological peculiar to itself, or does it differ from other forms of anaemia merely in its intensity ? Are we to hold with the view at first expressed by Quincke, and since held by many, that the disease may originate in many ways and be the product of very various morbid pro- cesses—loss of blood, continuous discharges, insufficient nourishment all being possible factors in its development provided they are of sufficient intensity and duration ? Or are we to hold with the later view of the same observer, that A 2