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William Hewson and the blood which issued last but clotted first: the beginning of the story of desmopressin in haemophilia and vWD
G. I. C. Ingram M.D., F.R.C.P., F.R.C.Path, F.L.S.,
P. M. Mannucci M.D.,
G. I. C. Ingram M.D., F.R.C.P., F.R.C.Path, F.L.S.
Formerly Professor of Experimental Haematology, St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, London, SE1; 42, Burford Lodge, Pegasus Grange, Whitehouse Road, Oxford OX1 4QG. *
Search for more papers by this authorP. M. Mannucci M.D.
Professor of Medicine, Director, Angelo Bianchi Bonomi Haemophilia and Thrombosis Centre (WHO Collaborating Centre), IRCCS Maggiore Hospital and University of Milan, Italy.
Search for more papers by this authorG. I. C. Ingram M.D., F.R.C.P., F.R.C.Path, F.L.S.,
P. M. Mannucci M.D.,
G. I. C. Ingram M.D., F.R.C.P., F.R.C.Path, F.L.S.
Formerly Professor of Experimental Haematology, St Thomas's Hospital Medical School, London, SE1; 42, Burford Lodge, Pegasus Grange, Whitehouse Road, Oxford OX1 4QG. *
Search for more papers by this authorP. M. Mannucci M.D.
Professor of Medicine, Director, Angelo Bianchi Bonomi Haemophilia and Thrombosis Centre (WHO Collaborating Centre), IRCCS Maggiore Hospital and University of Milan, Italy.
Search for more papers by this authorFirst published: July 1996
Sadly, we are left with no details of the ingenious coagulometers which Hayem invented, and which, his footnote of 1889 [14] tells us, he was forced to abandon in favour of un procédé extrêmement simple.
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- 46 P. M. Mannucci, M.D., Professor of Medicine, Director, Angelo Bianchi Bonomi Haemophilia and Thrombosis Centre (WHO Collaborating Centre), IRCCS Maggiore Hospital and University of Milan, Italy.
