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The Sedimentation Test and Icterus Index: A Few Observations on Their Uses in a Mental Hospital

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

Helen S. E. Murray
Helen S. E. Murray*
Affiliation:
County Mental Hospital, Whittingham
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By the erythrocyte sedimentation phenomenon is meant the rate at which the red blood-corpuscles settle in an anti-coagulative column of blood. Numerous modifications of the method are in use, differing only in the way results are recorded and in minor details of technique.

Type
Part I.—Original Articles
Information
Journal of Mental Science , Volume 76 , Issue 312 , January 1930 , pp. 85 - 90
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1930 

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