Abstract
The Disease called 'SPLENIC ANAEMIA1 being one
which has received comparatively little attention in
this country, I have ventured to make it the subject
of this Thesis. As far as possible, I have endeavored to base the following description, both clinical
and pathological, on cases which I have had under
observation during the last four years. A study of
these has also enabled me to criticise the accounts
given by others in some respects, for as these cases
are not common, a certain amount of error has crept
into what clinical records there are. The name Splenic
Anaemia is a very unsatisfactory one, but any of the
others which are used are even more so, and rather
than suggest another which perhaps future research
might show to be equally illogical,I have employed it.
The following account embraces the Etiology,
Symptomatology and Morbid Anatomy of Splenic Anaemia,
together with a review of what literature there is. To
this I have added a suggestion as to its pathogenesis
drawn from a study of my own cases. At the end, will
be found the clinical records of these cases, and
abstracts of those observed by others.
