RT Journal
T1 DIseases of the blood.
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1929
FD May 25
VO 92
IS 21
SP 1788
OP 1788
DO 10.1001/jama.1929.02700470064039
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1929.02700470064039
AB Heavy paper, good-sized type, fine workmanship, an excellent glossary, and most of the illustrations on plates, with some in colors, characterize this small volume. Experience and knowledge of the literature of hematology are evident from the brief convincing descriptions in choice English. The Greek suffix "osis" unfortunately has a double significance. It often means causation, as in actinomycosis; and often simply excess, as in adiposis. The storm of disapproval with which introduction of the term "nephrosis" was received is easily recalled. Erythrosis, myelosis and leukosis, implying hyperplasia of tissues where different blood cells are produced, may not meet with favor. Changes of the blood are set forth, but with fully as much attention to those concomitant in the hemoblastic tissues. Some of the other diseases of these parts, such as lymphosarcoma and Hodgkin's disease, in which the blood may be quite normal, are also portrayed. They are approached from the