Abstract
Of late years the Schilling blood picture has
been regarded as of far greater clinical importance
than has the common total leucocyte count. ROGATZ (1)
particularly stresses the use of the Schilling count
in prognosticating the changes in the temperature.
The Schilling count admittedly has its uses where one
or two isolated cases of pneumonia occur, but if one
has to deal with about six cases simultaneously in
the course of ordinary Hospital routine, the work
involved would become too great for the average
Hospital Resident or Clinical Assistant. Further,
this, would become still more so if its undertaking
were attempted by a busy General Practitioner.
The object of this series of observations on the
behaviour of the total leucocyte counts, was to
ascertain whether any clinical use could be made of
these counts in the course of a Pneumonia, and whether
the results obtained repay the time expended upon
them.
