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‘Writers on blood coagulation usually feel compelled to begin with a sort of apologia on the complexity of their subject. This form of introduction may serve useful purposes, and in some respects, it may be justified. It is useful in that the reader is forewarned about what is to come, and is not led to expect an easy passage. It is justified by the fact that the confusion (as opposed to inherent complexity) of the subject is man-made, and most workers have been guilty of inventing unnecessary names and hypotheses, or of discovering intriguing artifacts which have little physiological significance. But no apology should be given for the real complexity of the clotting mechanism as a biological system.’
R.G. Macfarlane (1960)1
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