Surgery

Thread silk (3)

about 1920

Dr. VÖMEL's original sewing material
Sterilized under dr. Vömel's
personal control
Silk N ° 3 turned

The 6.5 resp. 7.2 cm high vials contained silk of varying caliper (N ° 3 / N ° 4).

Towards the end of the 19th century the "German School" left the use of silk. August MARTIN writes:
"Silk is used only exceptionally used in abdominal surgery In the abdominal wound I put 5-6 silk threads.The plaited silk of TURNER, which I use, if any, for gynecological operations, is rolled up on glass plates and lies in a 2% o carbolic solution until threading ".

To the manufacturer

In 1891 Gottfried VÖMEL founded a surgical suture material factory in Kronberg / Taunus - the company still exists today and mainly produces surgical sutures and dental floss.