Pharmaceutical preparations, namely, clotting agents, clotting preparations, and agents for converting and activating clotting polymers for use in the control of bleeding associated with a wide range of surgeries and trauma and bum injuries; materials for dressings, namely, surgical sponge, foam, gauze, or bioabsorbable polymers, phannaceutical preparation for use in accelerating clotting time and arresting blood flow during medical procedures and treating blood disorders; preparations for use as a topical hemostat to control surgical bleeding, for the treatment of bleeding complications, trauma and bum injuries and to make alterations and enhancements in tissue repair; surgical preparations which are used locally or topically for hemostatic control in the form of sheets, flour, foam, liquid and fabrics, absorbable surgical sponges and hemostats; pharmaceutical preparations