History Suture and how it has impact on surgery

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1. History of Sutures

2. According to literature, people began to use string and animal aponeurosis for sutures dating back to 2000 BC. After the ancient Egyptian era, suture materials such as linen, horsehair, leather, cotton thread, and other plant fibers appeared. In 150 BC, Galen proposed the concept of "gut suture", but the real sterile gut that was made from the mucosa of the small intestine of sheep or cattle appeared at the end of the 19th century. In 1000 AD, silk thread came out and widely used, and silk thread is the longest-used medical suture  in history.

3. With the rapid development of modern medicine and the ever-increasing improvement of surgical techniques, surgeons’ requirements for the tension, operability, and absorbability of sutures are also increasing. The original sutures are far from being able to meet the requirements of modern surgical development. need. Medical sutures are developing rapidly in the direction of synthesizing new polymer materials.