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The Hæmoclastic Crisis in Mental Defectives. (From the Laboratory of the Rampton State Institution)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

W. Rees Thomas
Affiliation:
Rampton State Institution
W. J. Lascelles
Affiliation:
Cane Hill Mental Hospital, Coulsdon, Surrey
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The ingestion of a pint of milk by a normal fasting individual is followed by certain blood changes, the most important of which are an increase in the leucocyte count and a slight rise of blood pressure. In the condition known as anaphylaxis, or protein shock, the general symptoms are accompanied by a fall in the number of blood leucocytes, a reversal of the differential count, and a lowering of the blood-pressure.

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Part I.—Original Articles
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1927 

References

(1) For the literature on this subject the reader is referred to papers by Robertson in numbers of this Journal for July, 1925, and July, 1926.Google Scholar

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