Paper, 'On the origin of the fibrin-ferment' by L C [Leonard Charles] Wooldridge

Description

Wooldridge writes: 'The “fibrin ferment” which makes its appearance in shed blood is generally, I believe, supposed to arise from the cellular elements of blood, either from ordinary white corpuscles or from some special kind of corpuscles, the cells so concerned discharging the ferment into the blood or setting it free by their actual disintegration. Without wishing to deny that this may be one source of fibrin ferment, I am able, I think, to bring forward evidence that ferment may make its appearance in blood-plasma perfectly free from cellular, and indeed from all formed elements, in which case it must arise from some constituents of the plasma itself, and not from cells of any kind. It will be most convenient, perhaps, if I state the facts which I have to bring forward in connexion with two series of experiments.'

Annotations in pencil and ink.

Subject: Physiology / Haematology

Received 26 February 1884. Read 6 March 1884. Communicated by Michael Foster.

A version of this paper was published in volume 36 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the origin of the fibrin ferment'.

Reference number

PP/4/34

Earliest possible date

1884

Physical description

Ink and graphite pencil on paper

Page extent

8 pages

Format

Manuscript