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The pioneers of transfusion medicine around the turn of the 19th into the 20th centuries struggled with the awkward propensity of shed blood to clot. This article, a companion to a previous one (Boulton, 2013, Submitted for publication), describes in more detail how they recognised a potential for chemical anticoagulants which led to the introduction for a short period of sodium phosphate to aid blood transfusion: these cases preceded the introduction of citrate (Mollison, 2000, British Journal of Haematology, 108, 13-18). |