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Show THREAD USED BY SURGEONS Time Hat Proven That Catgut Is Only Material for Burled Suture. When Lister first advocated the employment em-ployment of catgut as a material for ligatures, numerous writers pointed out the objections, both theoretical and practical, to the use of this substance. sub-stance. Rut time has seen a change nd many surgeons at tho present time maintain that the only suitable material for a burled suture Is cat-jrut. cat-jrut. and that silk should never be employed except for skin sutures. In this, as In so many other mints, the surgeon Is greater than the detail It Is certain that millions of sl'k sutures su-tures have been Inserted In the deep tissue, and have not rut their way out. for If a suture does make Its way to the surface It Is probably always because It was septic. The attempt to find a ligature or suture perfect In every way has caused surgeons to employ many different dif-ferent substances Metallic sutures for a time received nuch support though they are rarely seen now Animal fibres of various kinds such as kangaroo tendons and threads of the aorta of tee ox. have been praised by fomo surgeons, and one surgeon claimed that perfection wns to be found In fibres obtained from the ligament liga-ment umnuchne of the narwhal It li fortunate that tho medical world has not fallen In with this latier recommendation, recom-mendation, for It Is to be feared that the supply would fall far short of the demand. |