Silver sutures in surgery / by J. Marion Sims.

  • Sims, J. Marion (James Marion), 1813-1883.
Date:
1858
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Silver sutures in surgery / by J. Marion Sims. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In the first six operations the wires were passed precisely as I do when they are to be fastened by leaden bars and perforated shot, and they all fail¬ ed; thus establishing the fiict, that the principle in their application essential to success Avith the Fig. 8. clamps, was the one to produce a failure by the button; and vice versa, the principle of success by the button was that of failure by the clamp. Let me explain— If the clamps or leaden bars are to be used to secure the wires, the sutures must be passed as shown at fig. 8, so far from tlic edges of the fistula as to allow the bars to sink down into the