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WILLIAM P. MURPHY, M.D.; EDWIN T. GREEN

Arch Intern Med. 1943;71(6):814-826.

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Photomicrography has been used to good advantage for a number of years to record for future reference or for purposes of demonstration the microscopic appearance of blood cells or tissue sections. That it might be used to demonstrate the actual shape of the erythrocyte and the location of granules in the leukocyte seemed possible, particularly after the introduction of the profile or three dimensional method of printing.

The problem which offered the most important possibility was that of demonstrating the spherocytes in the blood of a person suspected of having familial hemolytic anemia. However, in order to do this, it seemed desirable to visualize for comparison the erythrocytes of the blood of normal persons and those with other varieties of anemia.

In figure 1 is shown the photomicrograph of erythrocytes from a normal person as printed in the usual manner for comparison with the same erythrocytes recorded by the profile . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
BOSTON

From the Medical Service of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital.

Footnotes
This article was presented as part of a scientific exhibit at the annual meeting of the Massachusetts Medical Society, May 21-22, 1940.

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