Splenic anaemia: its clinical course and pathology

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.