Sutures
name: label: purchasing agent/middleman
content: Borowick, G. N.
label: maker
content: Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: Inscriptions on the glass vial read in part “ETHICON / SURGICAL SILK / Boilable Black Braided, Type B / Sterile . . .” George F. Merson began manufacturing, packaging and sterilizing catgut, silk and nylon sutures in Edinburgh in 1915. Johnson & Johnson acquired this firm in 1947 and renamed it Ethicon Suture Laboratories. In 1953 the firm became Ethicon Inc.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: location of prior holder
content: United States: California, Long Beach
label: location of prior holder
content: United States: California
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: from The Harriman Jones Medical Clinic, Long Beach CA
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1984.0853.15
label: accession number
content: 1984.0853
label: catalog number
content: 1984.0853.15
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Sutures
label: Other Terms
content: Sutures; Surgery; Medicine
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (vial material)
label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: braided (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: sutures:;