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Historical Bibliography Updated: June 17, 2026

An account of certain organisms occurring in the liquor sanguinis.

Publication Details

Proc. roy. Soc. (Lond.), (1873), 22, 391-98. 1874 CE.

One of the best early descriptions of the blood platelets was given by Osler. He noticed that white thrombi were almost entirely composed of them.

Thematic Classifications

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Entry Number#875
Permanent Linkhttps://staging.historyofmedicine.com/entry/879
Author Bio LinkWikipedia ↗
External URLan-account-of-certain-organisms-occurring-in-the-liquor-sanguinis