examination of all patients, has been outstanding in the minds of cancer specialists and public health authorities for years . Bolen' has advocated the gross and microscopic (low power) morphology of' dried drops of blood as sufficiently diagnostic to fill this need in many instances. Bolen employs the technic of Goldbergera as a rapid bedside test for measuring the blood sedimentation rate . G...

The viscosity of the plasma was studied briefly by Fahraeus in his original investigations (1921) into the blood sedimentation rate. In 1940 further studies were made by T'Ang and Wang, who concluded that it gave a more accurate picture of the activity of disease processes than the erythrocyte sedimentation rate. The plasma viscosity technique was independently developed by Whittington and his ...