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The Effect of Plasma Substitutes on Sedimentation Rates and Viscosity
About twenty years ago, The National Academy of Science-National Research Council’s Committee on Plasma and Plasma Substitute, Division of Medical Sciences sponsored the Third Conference on Artificial Colloida...
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Formed Elements of the Blood Platelets, and Thrombosis
The effects of injury in the microcirculation have been studied for about 100 years, initially more or less accidentally. The English ophthalmic surgeon Wharton-Jones (1851) descri~d arteriolar thromboembolism...
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Red Cell Interactions with the Microcirculation
We have measured RBC velocity profiles for mammalian arterioles and venules from high-speed cinematographic motion pictures. Measurements were made at 320× and 400× optical magnification over an averaging time...
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P. F. Verhulst's “notice sur la loi que la populations suit dans son accroissement” from correspondence mathematique et physique. Ghent, vol. X, 1838
The purpose of this publication as a pedagogical contribution is to report what is perhaps the first mathematical treatment of population statistics. This translation of an important paper by P. F. Verhulst wa...
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Leonhardi Euleri's “Principia pro motu sanguinis per arterias determinando”
The purpose of this publication as a pedagogical contribution is to illustrate the uniqueness of the method Euler used to determine the unsteady flow of blood in the circulatory system. In his presentation, he...
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The flow of a viscous liquid in a converging tube
The problem of the viscous flow of an incompressible Newtonian liquid in a converging tapered tube has been solved in spherical polar coordinates. The method of the solution involves the Stokes' stream functio...