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IT IS a great honor to have been chosen for the first Mead Johnson Award of 1948. As I look over the list of the distinguished men and women who were the earlier recipients of this Award I am aware of the obligation imposed upon me by your choice. At the same time I am grateful for the encouragement which this recognition will mean to my associates and to myself in our future work. It goes without saying that the contributions which form the basis of your selection were the result of the work and the ideas of many members of our group at the Children's Hospital of Michigan. I want to pay special tribute to the memory of the late Dr. Thomas B. Cooley who founded the hernatologic tradition in Detroit and who opened my eyes to the many interesting problems in this field. A review of our studies on megaloblastic anemia of infancy was only recently presented to members of the Academy. To avoid repetition, I shall not summarize this work again in detail but merely take certain aspects of it as a pretext and point of departure for a larger and more pretentious subject which I propose to call current trends in hematology. In order to illustrate this theme, I shall draw freely on the work of others. It is my belief that this topic is a timely one. In the last decade new tools of hematologic investigation have become available with the result that many basic concepts are even today undergoing profound modification. Because of the rapidity of these developments the newer concepts have not yet been generally applied in the clinical practice of pediatrics.
Wolf W. Zuelzer (Thu,) studied this question.