Ox Marrow for Anaemia.
A.s the result of extended experiment Brt A. Gordon Gullan has found that the pre> liminary administration of arsenic ia- all cases of pernicious anaemia produces a fail v in the number of Ted cells and colouring; matter of the blood, but withdrawal oft this drug and the substitution of' freahl bone marrow from the qx, as Iced aS possible, given at every meal in the form ofi sandwiches, resulted in a steady Tiae "boDbt in the number of red oelk and inrtha. amount of hemoglobin <red blood niaterial)i present; in one case from 1,209,000 red cells per cubic ■millimetre, associated ,-with. ' 375 per cent, heembiglbbin, to 4»50D,0QQ .red cellal and ' 98 per cent, hemoglobin after twov months' treatment; ' and in another case from 2,500,000 cells, wi& 67' per centhaemoglobin, to nearly 5,0001,009 "ceils"- and} 13,0 per cent, hasinbglobin. " i 'The ! ' point which Dr Gullan . emphasised -was Shat'notwithstanding disinclination and nausea on! the part of the patient the marrow Tnusfc be persevered in. -.-. .>
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Otago Witness, Issue 2808, 8 January 1908, Page 76
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167Ox Marrow for Anaemia. Otago Witness, Issue 2808, 8 January 1908, Page 76
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