REPAIRS TO TISSUE
Gold Leaf Used
(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) LONDON. June 21
Surgeons in Britain arc using gold leaf to repair defects in blood vessels “like a patch on a punctured rubber tube.”
An article in the latest issue of the British medical journal, “Lancet.” says commercial gold leaf—23 carat—is charged electrostatically by stroking a camel-hair brush against a rubber comb and then touching the leaf with the charged brush. When applied to body tissue the charged leaf adheres firmly and will effectively patch a torn blood vessel or cover a defect in a membrane, the article says.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30783, 22 June 1965, Page 15
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