TY  - JOUR
T1  - A satisfactory method for staining blood smears
AU  - HAYHURST ER
Y1  - 1909/04/03
N1  - 10.1001/jama.1909.25420400026002
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
SP  - 1100
EP  - 1102
VL  - LII
IS  - 14
N2  - 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
SN  - 0002-9955
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.1909.25420400026002
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1909.25420400026002
ER  -