The suggestion that leukopenia may result from splenomegaly of various etiologies was perhaps for the first time made by Bauer (3) nearly fifty years ago. The term hypersplenism was introduced by Eppinger (14) in 1913. Naegeli (33) later defined it as * Flat 25, 99 Haverstock Hill.
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