Handbook of Medical Treatment, Vol. 2 of 2 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Handbook of Medical Treatment, Vol. 2 of 2

Among the causes of symptomatic secondary anemia are such readily understood factors as a loss of blood; it may also include those dyscrasias which arise from malnutrition; those due to the absorption of metallic poisons, such as lead; those induced by toxins generated during the course of acute and chronic infections; and those referable to the hemolytic effect brought about by high fevers. Bright's disease, with its attendant defects of nutrition, produces a secondary anemia; cancer acts in a similar manner, as also does syphilis, malarial fevers, and numerous other infectious processes.

The essential feature, then, of a symptomatic secondary anemia is that it shall arise as a symptom of, and secondary to, ascertainable metabolic changes elsewhere in the economy.

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