RT Journal
A1 HAYHURST ER
T1 A satisfactory method for staining blood smears
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1909
FD April 3
VO LII
IS 14
SP 1100
OP 1102
DO 10.1001/jama.1909.25420400026002
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1909.25420400026002
AB THE VALUE OF BLOOD SMEARS 
    To the practicing physician the most important feature in all blood examinations is the stained blood smear. It is also the most exact of the hematologic findings. It is as important in all abnormal conditions of the blood (the infectious and chronic diseases, as well as the so-called blood diseases) as a stained tissue in the diagnosis of a pathologic growth. It gives the eye a true picture of the conditions present which the mechanical blood findings fail to convey.It is to be regretted that with many it simply stands for the differential leucocyte count and occasionally a search for parasites or enucleated red cells. On the other hand, it is, indeed, the most comprehensive of all blood findings, for it includes in itself the mechanical as well as the pathologic findings, while it requires the least time, the least technic, is the least