The viscosity of the blood

Abstract

The full importance of a knowledge of the variations in the viscous resistance to be overcome by the blood in circulating through the capillaries and smaller vessels, and the actual significations of such data to the more thorough consideration of a large number of normal of normal and pathological conditions, especially those of the circulatory system, has perhaps never been fully realised or appreciated either by physiologists or by clinicians in this country. Although the subject of the viscosity of the blood has time to time during the last 60 years attracted the attention of a few well-known investigations, yet, so far as we know, there has been no serious attempt to apply systematically the results of their researches to either the theory or practice of medicine.