SCIENCE AIDS INDUSTRY
STAINLESS STEEL THREAD LONDON. Feb. 27. Stainless steel thread for surgical operations is the latest idea. It conies from Sweden, where there is a shortage of catgut. A distinguished brain specialist in Stockholm, Dr. Olof Sjoeqvist, has used this material in 200 successful operations. The steel thread is perfectly pliable and easily sterilised, and its use is likely to continue even when catgut becomes plentiful again. The Swedes are a most progressive people, and their standard of medicine, surgery, and nursing is very nigh. It is quite unlikely that they would adopt this new idea unless it was sound enough for the rest of the world to follow.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CLIII, Issue 22553, 10 April 1943, Page 8
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111SCIENCE AIDS INDUSTRY Timaru Herald, Volume CLIII, Issue 22553, 10 April 1943, Page 8
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