Surgery

Thread silk (1)

Thread silk

The great Arabian surgeon ABU AL-QASIM AL-ZAHRAVI (Albucasis) (936-1013 CE) was possibly the first to use silk thread as a surgical suture.

Not to medical suture were the adhesive threads of the silk shell: the so-called Byssos threads were extremely expensive and found at most in cult objects, e.g. in the making of images of saints [Vera.icon> Veronica-Schweisstuch] Use.

From England comes this old pack of non-sterile packaged "Plaited Silk", i. braided silk threads. Involuntarily one thinks of the surgeon Mathias GRECHEN (1857-1919) from Luxembourg, who also received such material from England, when he carried out the first ovariotomy in Luxembourg in the autumn of 1884 ...