Blood Sedimentation Rate Measuring Method

A method for measuring plasma viscosity and a comparison of plasma viscosity with blood sedimentation rate in rheumatoid arthritis.

In the study of the rheumatic diseases the measurement of blood sedimentation rate has an established value in estimating the activity of the disease and in evaluating the effects of treatment. It is generally agreed, however, that the erythrocyte sedimentation rate is not always a reliable index even if a correction is made for anaemia. The study of the viscosity of blood was first described o...

Estimation of the erythrocyte sedimentation rate of capillary blood; description of a new method.

Venous blood is necessary for the estimation of the erythrocyte sedimentation rate (E.S.R.) by the methods of Westergren (1921) and Wintrobe and Landsberg (1935), but venepuncture may occasionally prove difficult or impossible, owing to such factors as inadequate veins, obesity, and flexion deformities. A search was therefore undertaken for a reliable method of estimating the E.S.R. using capil...

Reference method for the erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) test on human blood.

Sedimentation Rate of Red Blood Cells in Epidemic Dropsy

The sedimentation rate of the red blood cells was determined of 74 epidemic dropsy patients and of 8 persons in whom symptoms resembling those of epidemic dropsy were produced after taking food cooked in mustard oil incriminated in natural outbreaks of the disease or in mustard oil to which known quantities of argemone oil had been added (Chopra et al., 1939). The cell volume and the haemoglobi...

Blood sample transportation and the erythrocyte sedimentation rate.