Hence, it may be assumed that whenever nuclein is set free in the body, leucocytosis may result, provided the nuclein passes into the circulation and is not decomposed immediately after its liberation.
These facts, it appears to me, offer a more consistent line of explanation of digestive leucocytosis than that advanced by Pohl.
Thus, a few grammes of nuclein may produce as striking a condition of leucocytosis as a large amount of proteid food, due no doubt to proliferation of the lymphoid elements of all the lymphatic tissues of the body.
To this group belongs the leucocytosis of digestion, the leucocytosis from bodily exertion (Schumburg and Zuntz) or from cold baths, and further the leucocytosis of pregnancy.
We have already mentioned elsewhere (see page 102) that in the leucocytosis of digestion or of diseases of the intestine in children, such a coincidence occurs.
The leucocytosis of digestion consequently differs essentially from the other kinds, in which the neutrophil elements are chiefly increased.
In many cases leucocytosis is known to be associated with the defence of the organism from injurious influences, and its amount depends on the relation between the severity of the attack and the power of resistance.
The possibility of the three high temperatures with leucocytosis being due to intercurrent infections must be considered.
Three cases out of thirty-five, in which high fever and leucocytosis appeared episodically, are hardly enough to justify the view that stupors are the result of a specific infection.
There is a higher leucocytosis in the blood in meningitis than in cerebral abscess.
To increase the localleucocytosis and so check the spread of infection, a Bier's constricting bandage may be applied.
The leucocytosis is above that usually met with in health, and the increase in the early stages is due to the relative and absolute increase in the multinucleated or polymorphonuclear leucocytes.
As the excitement increases in severity the leucocytosis curve rises, and just before improvement sets in there may be a decided rise in the curve and then a subsequent fall; but this fall rarely reaches the normal line.
Just prior to the onset of an exacerbation the leucocytosis is low.
The hyperleucocytosis is not, however, so high as it is in acute mania, and upon recovery taking place the leucocytosis always falls to normal.
In cases of hæmorrhage the leucocytosis is increased by infusion of fluids into the circulation.
After all operations there is at least a transient leucocytosis (post-operative leucocytosis) (F.
Leucocytosis is present in cases of moderate severity; but in severe cases the virulence of the toxins prevents reaction taking place, and leucocytosis is absent.
The leucocytosis begins soon after the infection manifests itself--for example, by shivering, rigor, or rise of temperature.
An increasing leucocytosis is evidence that a suppurative process is spreading.
Leucocytosis is usually well marked before the injection of antitoxin; after the injection there is usually a diminution in the number of leucocytes.
In exceptionally acute septic conditions the extreme virulence of the toxins may prevent the leucocytes reacting, and leucocytosis may be absent.
To increase the resisting power of the system to pathogenic organisms, an artificial leucocytosis may be induced by subcutaneous injection of a solution of nucleinate of soda (16 minims of a 5 per cent.
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