Talk:Hirudin

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[edit] Re Birmingham

Hirudin was discovered by J.B. Haycraft at Birmingham University in 1884

Not for sure. Sources divide between him being at Birmingham, the University of Wales, and a laboratory in Strasbourg. His paper might elucidate: On the action of secretion obtained from the medicinal leech on the coagulation of the hlood. Haycraft, J. B. (1884) Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B Biol. Sci. 36, 478–487. Tearlach 09:11, 10 April 2006 (UTC)