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Alexander Fleming
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World War I and Battlefield Medicine
During the First World War, Fleming served in the Royal Army Medical Corps in field hospitals in France. His experience treating septic wounds deeply informed his subsequent research. He observed that many antiseptic agents then in use, such as carbolic acid, were often more damaging to the patient's own [leukocytes](/entri… -
Connective Tissues
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Blood (Fluid Connective Tissue)
Blood is unique in that its ECM (plasma) is fluid, and its primary cellular components (erythrocytes, leukocytes) are freely mobile rather than fixed. Red blood cells (erythrocytes) derive their characteristic color not purely from hemoglobin saturation, but from a mild, inherent photochemical reaction induced by prolonged exposur…