Word: fibrinogen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Department of Public Health units, such as the one operating at Brooks House, use the blood for direct transfusions, plasma, and fractionization. Under the latter process, recently developed at the Harvard Medical School, blood is broken down into albumin, fibrinogen, thrombin, bloud grouping globulin, and antihemophilic globulin...
...white corpuscles from the blood, and one has the plasma, composed of water and protein. Even the biggest of these protein particles would be only the length of a man's walking stick in the Harvard Stadium. At that size it would be a particle of fibrinogen, the protein which causes blood to clot and which is used in the new cures for bleeding...
Fibrin Foam is made of blood fibrinogen. It has a spongy consistency. Soaked before using in a solution of thrombin, it becomes fibrin, the framework of blood clots. The foam quickly and permanently stops oozing from small blood vessels and large veins, which no other material has ever been able to do. The surgeons sometimes leave some foam inside when a wound is closed. They found that the foam is rapidly absorbed...
Fibrin Film, also made of fibrinogen, is used to replace lost dura, the coating of the brain. It disappears in a few months, is completely replaced by a living membrane of approximately its own thickness...
...risk of death from disease and wounds as in World War I. One of the great advances has been in the field of blood plasma. Plasma has been split into several useful components: albumins, which proved even better than whole plasma in treating shock; blood-clotting factors (prothrombin and fibrinogen), which look very promising in the treatment of hemorrhage and burns; antibodies, which have been tried as injections against virus diseases, have already worked well in preventing measles...