. The practice of medicine; a text-book for practitioners and students, with special reference to diagnosis and treatment . scribed by Addison in 1855in his celebrated paper on Diseases of the Suprarenal Capsules. Interestin the subject was revived by Biermer in 1S68, and since then it has beenthoroughly studied anatomically and clinically. It is, however, still theleast understood of all the anemias. Definition.—Pernicious anemia is a progressive anemia of unknowncause with remissions. The red corpuscles and hemoglobin are both greatlyreduced, the former in larger proportion, the color index
. The practice of medicine; a text-book for practitioners and students, with special reference to diagnosis and treatment . scribed by Addison in 1855in his celebrated paper on Diseases of the Suprarenal Capsules. Interestin the subject was revived by Biermer in 1S68, and since then it has beenthoroughly studied anatomically and clinically. It is, however, still theleast understood of all the anemias. Definition.—Pernicious anemia is a progressive anemia of unknowncause with remissions. The red corpuscles and hemoglobin are both greatlyreduced, the former in larger proportion, the color index being high. Etiology.—The etiology of pernicious anemia is very obscure. Evi-dence is accumulating in favor of a toxic hemolytic origin, the toxins beingthe result of some one of the associated conditions. It is more common inmales than females and in middle life. It rarely affects children. Preg-nancy seems to be in some way responsible for a certain number of has also followed lactation. Cases with the blood picture of perniciousanemia as the result of atrophy of the stomach have been reported by Flint,. ^mmmmmmmmmm
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