Abstract
LEUKÆMIA, though a relatively rare disease, has many appeals. The clinician is confronted with a progressive and mysterious increase in the white cells of the blood and blood-forming tissues, resulting, unhappily, in the loss of young life. For the hsemato-logist, the chief problem is the origin of these blood cells ; the specialist in cancer research is concerned since there are many features in common between leukæmia and malignant tumours. The student of comparative disease, the virus investigator and the geneticist find fascinating problems, while the theoretical pathologist may well regard leukæmia as a substantial prop to the theory of cellular pathology which was clearly enunciated by Rudolph Virchow (1858), himself one of the foremost investigators of human leukæmia.
Spontaneous and Experimental Leukæmia in Animals
By Dr. Julius Engelbreth-Holm. Pp. xxiii + 245 + 24 plates. (Edinburgh and London: Oliver and Boyd, 1942.) 15s. net.
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CAMERON, G. LEUKÆMIA IN ANIMALS. Nature 150, 133–134 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/150133a0
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