A statistical comparison of the blood sedimentation rate and white blood cell count in acute respiratory conditions: with special reference to lobar pneumonia

Abstract

The Sedimentation Rate in Lobar Pneumonia:1. The sedimentation rate is greatly increased throughout the febrile stage.2. The sedimentation rate tends to vary with the white blood cell count, inversely till about the sixth day, and directly thereafter.3. Body temperature exercises no influence on the sedimentation rate or white blood cell count.4. The sedimentation rate is of help in diagnosis.5. The sedimentation rate is of great value in the assessment of complications, especially of delayed resolution.6. Ante mortem retardation of the sedimentation rate invariably occurs.