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Paper, 'On the coagulation of the blood' by William Dobinson Halliburton

Reference number: PP/12/14

Date: 1888

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Halliburton writes: 'The theory to account for the coagulation of the blood which is most generally accepted at the present day is that of Hammarsten; he teaches that coagulation is dependent upon the conversion of a proteid substance, fibrinogen, which exists in solution in the plasma, into fibrin by means of a ferment liberated by the disintegration of the white blood corpuscles which occurs when the blood leaves the living blood-vessel.'

Annotations in pencil and ink throughout.

Subject: Physiology / Haematology

Received 20 March 1888. Read 26 April 1888. Communicated by Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer.

A version of this paper was published in volume 44 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the coagulation of the blood'.

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PP/12/14
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1888
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Ink and graphite pencil on paper
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46 pages
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William Dobinson Halliburton, Paper, 'On the coagulation of the blood' by William Dobinson Halliburton, 1888, PP/12/14, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pp_12_14/paper-on-the-coagulation-of-the-blood-by-william-dobinson-halliburton, accessed on 20 July 2026

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