[Ads-l] Antedating of "Leukemia"

[Shapiro, Fred]

leukemia (OED 1855)

1850 _Critical Digest of the British and Foreign Medical Journals_ July 698 (JSTOR)  Virchow has termed the disease "Leukaemia," ... The propriety of calling that splenic disease "Leukaemia," may be questioned.

Fred Shapiro

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