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Sur la contractilité capillaires sanguins.

C. R. Acad. Sci. (Paris), 88, 916-18. 1879.

Rouget made an important investigation of the control of capillary circulation. He described cells (“Rouget’s cells”) on the outer surfaces of capillary walls, considered to be contractile. English translation in No. 1588.3.

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