Acute myeloid leukemia historical perspective
|
Acute myeloid leukemia Microchapters |
|
Diagnosis |
|---|
|
Treatment |
|
Case Studies |
|
Acute myeloid leukemia historical perspective On the Web |
|
American Roentgen Ray Society Images of Acute myeloid leukemia historical perspective |
|
Risk calculators and risk factors for Acute myeloid leukemia historical perspective |
Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief:
Overview
Historical Perspective
- The term 'cancer' was first used by Galen dating back to 130–200 AD.
- After the advent of microscopy to detect hematological disorders, especially work by the pioneering microscopist Anton van Leeuwenhoek significant progress was made to help diagnose various malignancies.
- Van Leeuwenhoek was the first scientist to describe red blood cells. in 1674.
- In 1749, Joseph Lieutaud, a French anatomist described what he called 'the globuli albicantes’, which later came to be known as white blood cells.
- During the same year, after De Sanc described ‘globules blancs du pus’, it became known that pus and inflammation were related to blood.
- In 1774, William Hewson gave a detailed description of the lymphatic system and lymphocytes.
- There was no account of leukemia in the literature to reveal any clinical cases before the nineteenth century.
- In 1846, Dr Henry Fuller, a physician at St George's Hospital in London published the first case report of chronic granulocytic leukemia. This was the first recorded use of the microscope to diagnose leukemia in a living patient. He noted that the time from the onset of ill health to death was 8 months. He labelled his diagnosis as leucocythaemia
References