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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...
More than 50 Fellows are now teaching in colleges and universities, and others hold industrial and government positions. They have published over 50 books and hundreds of technical papers: former members have developed synthetic quinine and developed "fibrin film" for use in brain operations...
...Other promising materials with similar properties: fibrin foam, soluble cellulose...
...Fibrin film, fibrin foam and thrombin (TIME, March 20). Fibrin film is used as a substitute for brain covering ; fibrin foam and thrombin stop oozing blood...