Professor Edmund Biernacki (1866-1911) and the discovery of the erythrocyte sedimentation rate

South African Medical Journal

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 40-41

  Kowalczyk, Jarek ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRINOGEN;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CANCER; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; ERYTHROCYTE VOLUME; FIBRINOGEN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NEPHRITIS; PNEUMONIA; PUBLICATION; RHEUMATIC FEVER; SEDIMENTATION; TUBERCULOSIS;

BLOOD SEDIMENTATION; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; LABORATORY TECHNIQUES AND PROCEDURES; POLAND; PORTRAITS;

EID: 30944434059     PISSN: 02569574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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