A Case of Acute Hæmolytic Anæmia with Spontaneous Recovery

w1as 13.8 mgiml. per cetit. T'lhe blood phosphorus, however, as only 1.8 mgm. per cenit., so that the ratio between calcium anid phosphorus, stea(l of being thc niormiial two to one, wkas eight to one. WVhile it is more usual to nd both the bloo(d calcium and phosphorus lower than niormal, it is this alteration the calcium-phosphorl-ls ratio that is typical of rachitic bloo(d clhemistry. -In spite of treatmc-int \vhich included fresh cowxs milk in the (liet, hlaliverol five rops three timies (lay, an(l somie orange julicc, the child dleveloped b)ronchoeumonia, an1d (li(l on the txw,enitict h (ay after admiission. Clinicall, the case was onle of advanced a(tive rickets, with marked chaniges in e bones aiid ndtmcous nmemibranics. WVhile the bony chaniges were perhaps most iarked, thle poor resistance of the muccous membranes to infection was evidenced y the eniteritis and(i terminial bronicho-pnieutmlon ia.