Sutures
name: label: maker
content: Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc.
notes: label: Description
content: Inscriptions on the glass vial read in part “STERILE / BLACK BRAIDED” and “40 INCHES / U.S.P. / BOILABLE” and “M-402 ETHICON, INC.” 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
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: 1984.0853.06
label: accession number
content: 1984.0853
label: catalog number
content: 1984.0853.06
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sutures
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silk (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall - vial: 3 3/4 in x 1/2 in; x 9.525 cm x 1.27 cm