is only after a careful study of this book that any idea of the enormous amount of work that has been contributed to hæmatology by Ehrlich and his pupils, and the relatively important part that such a work must play in guiding and encouraging those who are interested in this fascinating subject, can be formed.

The translation appears to have been very carefully made, and the opportunity has been seized to add notes on certain points that have a special bearing on Ehrlich's work, or that have been brought into prominence since the time that the original work was produced. This renders the English edition in certain respects superior even to the original.

G. SIMS WOODHEAD.

NOTE BY THE TRANSLATOR.

This translation of the first part of Die Anæmie, Nothnagel's Specielle Pathologie und Therapie, vol. viii. was carried out under the personal guidance of Professor Ehrlich. Several alterations and additions have been made in the present edition. To my friend Dr Cobbett I owe a debt of gratitude for his kind help in the revision of the proof-sheets.

W. M.

CONTENTS.

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INTRODUCTION 1

Definition. Clinical methods of investigation of the blood 1
The quantity of the blood 2
Number of red corpuscles 4
Size of red corpuscles 12
Amount of hæmoglobin in the blood 13
Specific gravity of the blood 17
Hygrometry 21
Total volume of the red corpuscles 21
Alkalinity of the blood 23
Coagulability of the blood 24
Separation of the serum 24
Resistance of the red corpuscles 25


THE MORPHOLOGY OF THE BLOOD 27


A. Methods of investigation 29

α. Preparation of the dry specimen 32
β. Fixation of the dry specimen 34
γ. Staining of the dry specimen 36
Theory of staining 37
Combined staining 38
Triacid fluid 40
Other staining fluids 41
Recognition of glycogen in the blood 45
Microscopic determination of the distribution of the alkali of the blood 46


B. Normal and pathological histology of the blood 48

The red blood corpuscles 48
Diminution of hæmoglobin equivalent 49
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