Atlas of Avian Hematology

Atlas of Avian Hematology (Series: Agriculture monograph ; no. 25)

Alfred M. Lucas, Casimir Jamroz Publisher: Washington, D.C. :U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, 1961 ISBN: 0-0301-0018176-4 271 pages

“No attempt is made to champion any theory of hematopoiesis; the total effort has gone into recording what was seen and putting the cells in serial order whenever possible. In some cases it has been impossible to carry a series back to a stem cell and, rather than force a point, blanks have been left in the record. In the avian field, we are just beginning a study of normal blood morphology and thus are now at the stage attained in the human field 50 to 75 years ago. When investigations on histology and anatomy in the mammalian and human fields were being vigorously pursued at about the turn of the century, the counterpart of such studies in the avian field was neglected, perhaps because it was not realized that the same kind of prerequisite information was needed to form the foundation for later exact investigations in poultry diseases, pathology, physiology, embryology, and nutrition. Critical studies in the field of blood diseases of poultry have been retarded because a reference work on the morphology of normal and abnormal cells has not previously existed. The Atlas of Avian Hematology is the first publication within the framework of a broad program on the basic histology and anatomy of the fowl. It is hoped that the program can be carried to completion. In the interim following the completion of the manuscript, new information on the subject of avian and mammalian hematology has been published. Therefore, a few references have been added on page 242. Two addenda, one on page 93 and another on page 140, have been inserted at the end of chapters so that pagination would not be disturbed”

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