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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

TILLETT, William Smith (1892 – 1974)

1892 – 1974

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1933 CE

#1924.1

The fibrinolytic activity of hemolytic streptococci.

TILLETT, William Smith (1892 – 1974) GARNER, Raymond Loraine (1906 – )

Tillett and Garner discovered a substance elaborated by a strain of haemolytic streptococcus which promoted lysis of fibrin and is now known as streptokinase.