Abstract
In response to milk injection or to stomach inflation leukocytosis develops in cats following a short period of leukopenia. There is also a shif, of the leukocytic formula with an increase of the number of band forms without any rise in the number of eosinophilic elements. Preliminary administration of penicillin, injection of foreign protein (milk) or the stimulation of the gastric mechanoceptors caused a pronounced eosinophilia disappearing in 9–10 days after discontinuing the administration of this antibiotic. Thus, penicillin causes a condition of sensitization in which the usual leukocytic reactions to humoral and the reflex stimulations are distorted and acquire the character of eosinophilia.
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