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Paper, 'Note on the changes effected by digestion on fibrinogen and fibrin' by L C [Leonard Charles] Wooldridge

Reference number: PP/11/24

Date: 1888

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Wooldridge writes: 'Fibrinogen is a name conveniently given to a group of proteid substances which can all be converted under certain conditions into fibrin. They exist in blood plasma (in traces in certain kinds of blood serum), and they can be prepared from almost all animal tissues (thymus, testis, brain, liver, kidney, stroma of red corpuscles, &c.).'

Annotations in pencil and ink.

Subject: Biology

Received 27 January 1888. Read 16 February 1888. Communicated by Victor Horsley.

A version of this paper was published in volume 43 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'Note on the changes effected by digestion on fibrinogen and fibrin'.

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PP/11/24
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1888
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Ink and coloured pencil on paper
Page extent
5 pages
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Manuscript

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Leonard Charles Wooldridge

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Leonard Charles Wooldridge, Paper, 'Note on the changes effected by digestion on fibrinogen and fibrin' by L C [Leonard Charles] Wooldridge, 1888, PP/11/24, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pp_11_24/paper-note-on-the-changes-effected-by-digestion-on-fibrinogen-and-fibrin-by-l-c-leonard-charles-wooldridge, accessed on 20 April 2025

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