A reference handbook of the medical sciences, embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science . les in specimenstaken in winter. The prepared specimens may now be placed in alabelled pill and kept indefinitely. The methodof preparation here given permits of the preservingof specimens for a number of years, to be forclass purposes; or of sending them, packed in a littlecotton, by mail to an expert. By learning thissimple technique, therefore, a physician engaged inpractice in a section of the countrj removed fromlaboratory opportunities, or one occu
A reference handbook of the medical sciences, embracing the entire range of scientific and practical medicine and allied science . les in specimenstaken in winter. The prepared specimens may now be placed in alabelled pill and kept indefinitely. The methodof preparation here given permits of the preservingof specimens for a number of years, to be forclass purposes; or of sending them, packed in a littlecotton, by mail to an expert. By learning thissimple technique, therefore, a physician engaged inpractice in a section of the countrj removed fromlaboratory opportunities, or one occupied in militaryduties, may take specimens and send them to alaboratory for examination. The differential diagnosis of typhoid and malaria, 187 Blood, Clinical Examination of REFERENCE HANDBOOK OF THE MEDICAL SCIENCES so important in military encampments, can thus bealways aided by tiiis simple technique. So recently asthe Spanish-American war the neglect of this simpleprocedure led to most distressing cases of typhoid feverpatients in delirium wandering about various cases had been discharged on sick leave with. Fig. 799.—Method of Taking Dried Specimen of Blood. Fourth step. the diagnosis of malaria made on the fever and othergeneral clinical symptoms. While at that time suchnegligence was open to severe criticism, to-day itwould be unpardonable. Moreover, these patientswere in man} instances so indiscriminate!} overdosedwith quinine that when ultimately seen at one of thecity hospitals, the blood examination for malaria wasgreatly interfered with and certainly the typhoidvictim gained little by this cinchonism. 2. Method Employed ix FrxiXG Dried SpecimensOF Blood.—Before proceeding to the work of stainingit is necessary to ftx the contents of the corpusclesso that they shall not be dissolved; and this is calledfixation. The living blood will not stain becausethe corpuscles readily dissolve, giving up their hemo-globin even to water and all the corpuscular ch
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