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ALTHOUGH we have long been accustomed to coloured illustrations in text-books and monographs on hæmatology, we find in this "Atlas of the Blood in Children" something above the ordinary not only in its extent, but also and more especially in the happy combination of faultless artistry and perfect colour-printing. The very slight variation in colouring due to the routine use of Wright's stain in place of those more commonly used in Great Britain, namely, Leishman or Giemsa, does not detract in the slightest from the value of the seventy plates used to illustrate the important features of the blood pictures of more than five thousand cases examined and catalogued by the authors in their special hæatological laboratory in the Infants' and Children's Hospitals, Boston. A special point is made of the fact that the "Atlas" is not intended as an exhaustive treatise on the variations in the blood in diseases of children, but represents only conditions with Which the authors have had close personal experience. This will explain some omissions, and also the apparently undue stress laid on diseases seldom seen in Britain, such as Meditteranean anæmia and sickle cell anæmia.
Atlas of the Blood in Children
By Dr. Kenneth D. Blackfan Dr. Louis K. Diamond. Pp. xiv + 320 (70 plates). (New York: Commonwealth Fund; London: Oxford University Press, 1944.) 66s. 6d. net.
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DAVIE, T. Atlas of the Blood in Children. Nature 156, 192 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/156192a0
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