Can you keep silk worms for stitches? Or encourage some crafty person to keep silk worms so you can use the otherwise discarded innards for stitches if necessary. Kind of a pain but silk from silk worm innards is a much better option than stitching wounds with other types of thread. Alternatively, I guess maybe investigate large headed ant species as potential butterfly bandage replacements the way some African tribes do (get the ants to bite down on each side of the wound then twist the body off, the ant heads remain and hold the wound together).
Re: A village surgery lab c 1920, 1930?
Date: 2022-11-02 03:25 am (UTC)