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Hirudin
An anticoagulant ('bloodthinner'). Hirudin is the active principle in the salivary secretion of leeches. The name hirudin is from Hirudo medicinalis, the name of the medicinal leech. In 1884 John Haycraft in Strasbourg found that leeches…
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