Crin de Florence - Catgut - Antique suture thread - Surgical Drain
  • Crin de Florence - Catgut - Antique suture thread - Surgical Drain
  • Crin de Florence - Catgut - Antique suture thread - Surgical Drain
  • Crin de Florence - Catgut - Antique suture thread - Surgical Drain
  • Crin de Florence - Catgut - Antique suture thread - Surgical Drain
  • Crin de Florence - Catgut - Antique suture thread - Surgical Drain
  • Crin de Florence - Catgut - Antique suture thread - Surgical Drain

Crin de Florence - Catgut - Antique suture thread - Surgical Drain

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Crin de Florence - Antique suture thread

Catgut

Natural suture thread obtained from the caterpillar of the Bombyx mori butterfly.

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Crin de Florence - Suture thread - Catgut

Natural suture thread for surgery or drainage obtained from the caterpillar of the Bombyx mori butterfly.

Crin de Florence was obtained by stretching the sericogenic apparatus of the Bombyx mori butterfly caterpillar, which was first killed by soaking it in vinegar.

This thread was also used for fishing line, to which the hook is attached.

(Source Dr Paul Dorveaux: Historique du Crin de Florence - 1909)

Natural Crin de Florence began to be replaced by synthetic thread after the Second World War, mainly due to the degeneration of silkworms, which no longer produced the coarse threads preferred by surgeons.

(Source: La fin d'une ligature chirurgicale, le crin de Florence by Georges Dillemann - 1984)

From the TUTO brand manufactured by Laboratoires Corbière, Paris

Glass tube dimensions: 16cm

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Antique amber glass bottle, with a boxwood and cork stopper.

Label: DANGEROUS

Indicating to the pharmacist that it must be stored separately from other substances in the cabinet for toxic substances, the famous ‘poison cabinet’.

It comes from the former cellar-laboratory of a Parisian pharmacy. The bottles had not been moved from the shelves since the late 1950s. The cellar had served as a medical analysis laboratory and a laboratory for the pharmacy’s compounded preparations from 1900 until around 1950.

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Price €35.00