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Show THREAD USED BY SURGEONS Time Has Proven That Catgut li Only Material for Burled 8uture. When Lister first advocated tho employment em-ployment of catgut as a material for ligatures, numerous writers pointed out tho objections, both theoretical and practical, to the use of this substance. sub-stance. Hut time hag seen a change and many surgeons at the present time maintain that the only suitable material for a burled BUture Is cat gut, and that silk uliould never be employed except for skin sutures. In this, as In, so many other points, tho surgeon Is greater than the detail. It Is certain that millions ot silk sutures su-tures have been inserted In the At (tlssue, and hare not cut their way out, for if a suture tlos moke Its way to the surfuce It Is probably always because It was reptlc The attempt to find a ligature or suture perfect In every way baa caused surgeons to employ many different dif-ferent substances Metallic sutures for a time received much support, thowgh they ure rarely Boen now Animal flbros of various kinds, suck ss kangaroo tendons anil threads of the aorta of the ox. have been praised by rome surgeons, and one Burgeon claimed that perfection was to bo found' In fibres obtained from the llgo-mentumnuchne llgo-mentumnuchne of the narwhal It Is fortuuato that the medical world has not fal a In with this latter recom-mendat. recom-mendat. an, for It Is to bo feared that the supily would fall far short of tho demand. |