Clinical Pathology of the Blood: A Treatise on the General Principles and Special Applications of Hematology (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Clinical Pathology of the Blood: A Treatise on the General Principles and Special Applications of HematologyThe rapid advances in the knowledge of the pathology of the blood and the multitudinous applications of this knowledge in clinical diagnosis which the last decade has witnessed have brought forth several critical treatises on hematology, and still furnish, as the writer believes, abundant reason for the preparation of another such work, in English.Although the clinical bearings of the subject have been partly or fully accessible to English readers in some recent text-books, many later contributions to the pathology of the blood and blood-forming organs have had to be sought elsewhere, often in the original articles. This omission the present work endeavors to supply.Much of the theoretical discussion in the volume, abstracts of special articles, and reports of cases, have been set in fine print, so as not to encumber the main text, which has been constructed for the student and general reader. The wants of the laboratory worker and special student of hematology have been partly considered in the chapter on Technics and Chemistry, and in the limited references to pathological anatomy.There are probably always some deficiencies in a treatise closely relating to clinical medicine when that treatise emanates from a pathological laboratory. Yet a comparison of the various extant works on the so-called "clinical" pathology of the blood has convinced the writer that clinical pathology is pathology still, and that a wide experience at the autopsy table and in the microscopical examination of diseased tissues furnishes an absolutely essential standpoint from which to view pathological changes in the blood. The present volume aims therefore to associate changes in the blood as closely as possible with lesions in the viscera, without which combination the former are very often unintelligible.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.