Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2157

PAUL EHRLICH (1854-1915) Die Anaemie. Alfred Hölder 1898-1900 Pt. I: vi, 142 pp., 3 illus., table; Pt. II: ix, 199 pp., 2 col. plates, 3 tables. 24 cm.

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Ehrlich developed methods of staining blood cells that form the basis of modern hematology. His early work with aniline dyes led to his development of the triacid stain for blood films. Using his stain techniques, he discovered all the different types of leukocytes and erythrocytes. Ehrlich was the first to report on the nature of the blood cells in anemia and he provided the first description of the reticulocyte. He described aplastic anemia and found the megaloblast and megalocyte in pernicious anemia. Ehrlich noted the three main characteristics of the erythrocytes in anemia as well as the normoblast which he found in certain anemic states. His coauthor, Lazarus, was a graduate of Breslau and collaborated with Ehrlich on hematology research in Berlin. This was the principal work in which he was involved; the second edition appeared under his name alone in 1909. In this work, Ehrlich and Lazarus summarize the results of their research into the nature of anemia and bring together in one source many findings that had previously been published in the medical literature. The work appeared as Volume VIII of Nothnagel's Specielle Pathologie und Therapie.