THE HEMATOLOGY OF INFECTIOUS DIARRHEA

In reviewing literature relative to this subject, the writer has found a total absence of any authentic conclusions regarding the blood in infectious diarrhea. Starr,¹ Whipham² and Keating³ make no mention of the blood whatsoever. Taylor and Wells,⁴ Ashby and Wright,⁵ Carmichael⁶ and Oppenheim⁷ also failed to mention this important point. The textbooks of Donkin,⁸ Smith,⁹ Carr¹⁰ and Cotton¹¹ have left unsaid all matters pertaining to this subject. Even the most recent works on pediatrics, by such authorities as Koplik,¹² Hutchinson,¹³ Chapin and Pisek,¹⁴ Rachford,¹⁵ Cautley,¹⁶ Fischer,¹⁷ McCaw,¹⁸ Rotch,¹⁹ Still,²⁰ Holt,²¹ Garrod, Batten, Thursfield²² and Morse,²³ have all left this important topic untouched. In addition, a careful survey of the works of different authorities who have made hematology a special study in the majority failed to record