Word: fibrin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Shotgun Blast. Driving himself as relentlessly as he drove the assistants who performed the practical experiments to prove his brilliant theoretical flashes, Cohn identified more and more of the components of blood, and developed improved methods for extracting many of them. There was fibrinogen, raw material from which fibrin film and fibrin foam are made, to close wounds and cover the brain in daring, delicate surgery. There was thrombin, which combines with fibrinogen but is used separately in some cases. There was a special kind of globulin for hemophiliacs. There were globulins which made possible the immediate typing...
This work resulted in the production of serium albumin, gamma globulin, fibrin products for brain surgery, and other parts of the coagulation mechanism for chemical and clinical study...