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respective causes, a number of diseases (distomatosis, lung^ 

 worms, uncinariasis, internal acariasis, chronic trichinosis, 

 strongyliasis, etc.,) which were formerly classed as anaemias, 

 and it seems altogether probable that the onward progress of 

 medicine will enable us to go farther in the same direction and 

 to allot the remaining unclassed anaemias to their proper etio- 

 logical places. Some may be unrecognized helminthiasis, others- 

 microbian disorders, and still others, disorders in nutrition and 

 sanguification from different causes. 



The symptoms are those of other forms of anaemia, but being 

 more obscure in origin and therefore less open to corrective treat- 

 ment, it is more likely to grow to an extreme development and 

 fatal issue. The weak pulse, irritable heart, debility, unsteady 

 walk with the hind limbs, hurried breathing and sweating under' 

 exercise, watery, puffy eyes, dropsies in limbs and dependent 

 parts of the body, progressive emaciation, and weakness are even 

 more marked than in symptomatic anaemia. 



The treatment is in the main as for the other form alike in its 

 hygienic and medicinal bearing. In man, recoveries have taken 

 place under arsenic combined with the iron. Arseniate of potash 

 and ferrum redactum in pill form, or tincture of chloride of iron, 

 and Fowler's solution in food or water, continued for a length of 

 time. Phosphated pepsin, and peroxide of hydrogen have seemed 

 to do well in some instances, and phosphorated oil is another 

 resort. W. Hunter attributes idiopathic anaemia to toxins derived 

 from microbes in the alimentary canal, as Sir Andrew Clark 

 ascribes chlorosis to a similar cause. He prescribes beta-naphthol 

 as the least soluble and best antiseptic, in a dose of 5 grains 

 daily in mucilage for man (i drachm for horse or ox). Hunter 

 further found that a farinaceous diet protected the globules- 

 against destruction, while a nitrogenous diet favored this. It 

 may be noted that long ago Delafond attributed anaemia in ani- 

 mals to the extension of the use of artificial fodders of the 

 natural order leguminosae which are rich in nitrogen. 



