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Concept

Sutures

Images

  • Surgical stitches and the tying-up of wounds. Coloured pencil drawing.
  • A gloved hand making surgical stitches. Coloured pencil drawing, 19--.
  • Four diagrams illustrating heads with severe wounds, demonstrating how to stitch the skin back together properly. Stipple engraving by J. Bell.
  • A woman and a girl having an ear and a nose pierced, a boy receiving stitches on his arm and a man having his hair cut, another a shave; a warning about the dangers of using unsterilized equipment and contracting the HIV virus by Spitnacs, Societal Projects Information Training Networking and Consultancy Services. Colour lithograph, ca 1997.
  • Sewing up of an eye cavity in a cadaver after removal of the eye for training of surgeons. Watercolour by Julia Midgley, 2013.
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Catalogue

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    De l'emploi des sutures perdues dans quelques opérations plastiques / par Jaques-L. Reverdin.

    Reverdin, Jaques-Louis, 1842-1929. | Date: 1888
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    A wounded leg with a quilled suture. Stipple engraving by J. Bell.

    Bell, John, 1763-1820. | Reference: 23339i
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    Notes on the preparation of catgut for surgical purposes / [Joseph Lister].

    Lister, Joseph, Baron, 1827-1912. | Date: 1909
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    Handbook of ligatures and sutures : historical notes, nature and methods of preparation, sterilization, testing and handling, with descriptive list of prepared ligatures and sutures.

    | Date: [1926], ©1926
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    Silver sutures in surgery / by J. Marion Sims.

    Sims, J. Marion (James Marion), 1813-1883. | Date: 1858
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