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Presence of a Foreign Body. When an aseptic foreign body is present in the tissues, e.g. a piece of unabsorbable chromicised catgut, the healing process may be modified.
He stood before the prisoner and gave his evidence; during which the prisoner's knees were seen to knock together with terror: he was a young man fit for folly, but not for felony. Said Richard Bassett, "I have a cupboard containing family plate. It is valuable, and some years ago I passed a piece of catgut from the door through the ceiling to a bell at my bedside.
Instead therefore of finishing George's shirts, we now had them new modelling their old gauzes, or flourishing upon catgut. The poor Miss Flamboroughs, their former gay companions, were cast off as mean acquaintance, and the whole conversation ran upon high life and high lived company, with pictures, taste, Shakespear, and the musical glasses.
This seems to be of equal strength, for a firm thread of it feels like catgut in the hand, and would rather cut the fingers than break. * Unfortunately, this woodcut can not be represented in this ASCII text, but buaze, or bwazi, is 'Securidaca longipedunculata'. A. L., 1997.
In magic, as I believe in physics, action and reaction are equal and opposite. The Cherokee Indians are adepts in practical botany of the homoeopathic sort. Thus wiry roots of the catgut plant are so tough that they can almost stop a plowshare in the furrow.
The left median basilic vein was exposed by an incision, and 20 ounces of warm saline solution were slowly perfused, an ordinary glass syringe with a capacity of five ounces, with an India-rubber tubing attached to a canula in the vein being employed. The clamped vessels were now tied with catgut and the wound cleansed with phenol lotion and dressed with cyanid-gauze.
"Possibly these will do for your purpose." "What are they?" "These are the intestines of the wildcat we shot about ten months ago." "Well, aren't they as good as the intestines of the common cat?" "Undoubtedly; but violin strings are not produced from that source." "Aren't they known as catgut?" "That is true; but it is a mistake.
Catgut. The following methods of preparing catgut have proved satisfactory: The gut is soaked in juniper oil for at least a month; the juniper oil is then removed by ether and alcohol, and the gut preserved in 1 in 1000 solution of corrosive sublimate in alcohol (Kocher). The gut is placed in a brass receiver and boiled for three-quarters of an hour in a solution consisting of 85
He had cut a button from another coat, by the easy method of amputating it with a surgical bistoury, and had sewed it in its new position with a curved surgical needle and a few inches of sterilized catgut. The operation was slow and painful, and accomplished only with the aid of two cigarettes and an artery clip.
The chief defensive weapon was the shield, about three feet in length, covered with bull's hide, having the hair outward and studded with nails. The shape of the bow was not essentially different from that used in Europe in the Middle Ages, being about five feet and a half long, round, and tapering at the ends; the bowstring was of hide or catgut.
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