On distributive leukocytosis

The issue of distributive leukocytosis is the result of research in the last 2 years. It is true that even before some authors attributed to it a certain role in digestive leukocytosis, but the mechanism of its occurrence was completely unknown to them. The old concept of the reaction of the hematopoietic system to food irritation was reduced exclusively to leukocytosis; however, in some cases they found the absence of digestive leukocytosis for no apparent reason in perfectly healthy people, and this absence was attributed to a delay in intestinal digestion (Krehl), and Jaffa, contrary to the generally accepted opinion, found in infants as a result of food irritation not leukocytosis but leukopenia, which seemed to many a paradoxical phenomenon.