TY - JOUR AB - FEB. 21, 1942 MEDICAL MEMORANDA MEDICATI JOURNAL Acute Haemolytic Anaemia following Reviews Phenothiazine Therapy The treatment of threadworms by phenothiazine (thiodiphenyl- amine), as first suggested by Manson-Bahr (1940), has become The Story of Clinical Tuberculosis. Lawrason increasingly popular. His series of recorded cases consists of Pulmonary By Brown, M.D. (Pp. 411. $2.75 or Baltimore: The 15s.) 9 patients who were treated without any ill effects and appar- Williams and Wilkins London: Bailli6re, Tindall and Company; ently cured. DeEds, Stockton, and Thomas (1939) quoted 19 Cox. 1941. cases which were so treated; of these, 3 developed varying Dr. Lawrason Brown died in December, 1937. His was degrees of anaemia, the red cells in one falling to 1,500,000. a name to conjure with in the American tuberculosis world. Finally, Hubble (1941) reported 3 further cases of anaemia Tuberculosis claimed him from the moment when as a occurring in 28 patients treated with this drug; although the anaemia was not of a that there severe degree it was considered medical student and patient he came under the influence was also a certain of the amouht of liver damage. In none of Trudeau at Saranac Lake. His personal misfortune, above patients was the TI - A History of Phthisis JF - British Medical Journal DO - 10.1136/bmj.1.4233.259-a DA - 1942-02-21 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/british-medical-journal/a-history-of-phthisis-JWd0KfqvOh SP - 259 EP - 260 VL - 1 IS - 4233 DP - DeepDyve ER -