| RefNo | PP/6/28 |
| Previous numbers | PP/38/27 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Paper, 'On the fibrin yielding constituents of the blood plasma' by L C [Leonard Charles] Wooldridge |
| Creator | Wooldridge; Leonard Charles (fl 1883-1889) |
| Date | 1885 |
| Description | Wooldridge writes: 'There is no doubt that from every variety of blood plasma a proteid body may be isolated, which can by appropriate means be converted into fibrin. This body, which is known as fibrinogen, has been more especially studied by Hammarsten. This observer has shown that fibrinogen possesses characters which clearly distinguish it from the other supposed factor in coagulation, viz, paraglobulin, and also that solutions of fibrinogen will, when treated with fibrin ferment, give rise to fibrin. The only objection possible to Hammarsten’s experiments is that the body which he isolated has either previously to or during the process of isolation undergone alteration. That it is in fact not the same body which is present in the circulating blood, but that it is, so to say, a sort of nascent fibrin. My observations bear on this point.'
Annotations in pencil and ink.
Subject: Physiology / Haematology
Received 26 March 1885. Read 16 April 1885. Communicated by Michael Foster.
A version of this paper was published in volume 38 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the fibrin-yielding constituents of the blood plasma'. |
| Extent | 12p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| PhysicalDescription | Ink and graphite pencil on paper |
| Digital images | View item on Science in the Making |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| RelatedMaterial | DOI: 10.1098/rspl.1884.0097 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | PersonName | Dates |
| NA8220 | Foster; Sir; Michael (1836 - 1907); physiologist | 1836 - 1907 |