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How would you like to cauterize your wounds?
Charles Lentz has solutions if you are an electrical or a gasoline surgeon!
Charles Lentz & Sons Illustrated Catalogue and Price List of Surgical Instruments. Charles Lentz & Sons, 1892.
Wound closure techniques ca. 1855.
Fig 1. Closure of the wound without sutures, using adhesives and cloth. Fig 2. Simple interrupted suture. Fig 3. Simple uninterrupted suture. Fig 4. Interfolded suture, with stabilizing rods. Suture passes under wound and is pulled together despite no stitches over the wound site. Fig 5. "Suture en zigzags" - Continuous horizontal mattress suture. Fig 6. Twisted suture. Dieffenbach used this stitch in the early steps of his reconstructive surgery. Fig 7. Suture needle holder. Fig 8. Curved suture needles.
Précis iconographique de Médecine Opératoire et d'Anatomie Chirurgicale. Drs. Bernard and Huette, 1854.
