Surgery

Thread silk (4)

A whole series of today forgotten companies supplied the market with supposedly sterile silk, so

- the "Schwanenmarke" (right in the picture),

- Paul Ruffani "Permanent Exhibition & Shipping of Articles on Health & Nursing, Frankfurt a.M., Friedensstrasse 8, now Bethmannstr.16", supplied in March 1893 German clinics with turned RUFFANI silk. In 1934 he was in Frankfurt, Alte Rothhofstrasse 4, manufacturer of sutures (left in the picture).