EXPERIMENTAL ANEMIAS, DIET FACTORS AND RELATED PATHOLOGIC CHANGES OF HUMAN ANEMIAS

Abstract

In any discussion of general anemia problems it should be emphasized that the causes of anemia, whether human or experimental, are various and that different animals may differ with one another and with human beings in reaction to a given substance or diet factor. There is a tendency to draw deductions from one type of anemia and apply them to another, and I shall submit evidence to indicate the danger of this procedure. The reactions in animal experiments may give suggestions as to procedure in the treatment of human anemia, but subsequent observations must be careful and long continued on the human cases to establish similarities or differences in the clinical reaction as compared with the experimental. This indicates the necessity for a large amount of careful work, both experimental and clinical, before we can hope to have a satisfactory understanding of this fascinating anemia problem. The important work of