“…The literature from this early period describes leukocytopenia, shift to the left of the white blood picture, hyperplasia of the bone marrow possibly changing into aplasia, decrease in the number of erythrocytes and hemoglobin percentage, and coagulation defects involving a decreased number of thrombocytes (4,50,82,83,95,147). In other reports (79, 103), however, small or no hematological differences have been mentioned.…”