“…Mast cell infiltration of parenchymatous organs has been reported (Ellis, 1949;Reilly, Shintani and Goodman, 1955;Berlin, 1955;Brodeur and Gardner, 1956;Loewenthal, Schen, Berlin and Wechsler, 1957;Rider, Stein and Abbuhl, 1957), and the appearance of mast cells in the peripheral blood has been called a mast cell leukaemia (Hissard, Moncourier and Jacquet, 1950;Waters and Lacson, 1957).…”