The anemia which develops after splenectomy is most marked in animals on a mixed table scrap diet of meat, bread, cereals, and vegetables, which is essentially a cooked diet. Control studies in which a unilateral nephrectomy precedes splenectomy demonstrate that the anemia is not due to operation, hemorrhage, or accidents of convalescence but develops only in the absence of the spleen. The results of studies of the influence of food containing a large amount of iron in presumably easily utilizable form, as in raw beef spleen, do not support the view that the anemia is due to lack of iron in the food. Observation on the influence of a diet of raw meat as contrasted with cooked meat shows a more severe anemia in animals on the cooked diet and suggests the possibility that heat alters some substance which, in the absence of the spleen, the body cannot utilize. A final conclusion in regard to this point must, however, await the results of more detailed studies now in progress.
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December 01 1915
THE RELATION OF THE SPLEEN TO BLOOD DESTRUCTION AND REGENERATION AND TO HEMOLYTIC JAUNDICE : XIII. THE INFLUENCE OF DIET UPON THE ANEMIA FOLLOWING SPLENECTOMY.
Richard M. Pearce,
Richard M. Pearce
From the John Herr Musser Department of Research Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
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J. Harold Austin,
J. Harold Austin
From the John Herr Musser Department of Research Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
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O. H. Perry Pepper
O. H. Perry Pepper
From the John Herr Musser Department of Research Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
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Richard M. Pearce
From the John Herr Musser Department of Research Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
J. Harold Austin
From the John Herr Musser Department of Research Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
O. H. Perry Pepper
From the John Herr Musser Department of Research Medicine of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
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June 15 1915
Online ISSN: 1540-9538
Print ISSN: 0022-1007
Copyright, 1915, by The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research New York
1915
J Exp Med (1915) 22 (6): 682–693.
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June 15 1915
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Richard M. Pearce, J. Harold Austin, O. H. Perry Pepper; THE RELATION OF THE SPLEEN TO BLOOD DESTRUCTION AND REGENERATION AND TO HEMOLYTIC JAUNDICE : XIII. THE INFLUENCE OF DIET UPON THE ANEMIA FOLLOWING SPLENECTOMY. . J Exp Med 1 December 1915; 22 (6): 682–693. doi: https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.22.6.682
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