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Paper, 'On a new constituent of the blood and its physiological import' by L C [Leonard Charles] Wooldridge

Reference number: PP/6/8

Date: 1884

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Wooldridge writes: 'I published last February in the Proceedings of the Society a paper on the origin of the fibrin ferment in which I shewed that a body exists dissolved in the plasma which can give rise to fibrin ferment [see PP/4/34]. I have proceeded with my investigations, and have succeeded in making some additions to our knowledge of th is subject, which I here describe.'

Annotations in pencil and ink throughout.

Subject: Physiology / Haematology

Receibed 16 December 1884. Read 18 December 1884. Communicated by Michael Foster.

A version of this paper was published in volume 38 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On a new constituent of the blood and its physiological import'.

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PP/6/8
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1884
Physical description
Ink and graphite pencil on paper
Page extent
6 pages
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Manuscript

Creator name

Leonard Charles Wooldridge

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Leonard Charles Wooldridge, Paper, 'On a new constituent of the blood and its physiological import' by L C [Leonard Charles] Wooldridge, 1884, PP/6/8, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pp_6_8/paper-on-a-new-constituent-of-the-blood-and-its-physiological-import-by-l-c-leonard-charles-wooldridge, accessed on 14 June 2025

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