The Employment of fine silk in preference to cat-gut
Subtitle: the advantages of transfixing tissues and vessels in controlling haemorrhage ; also an account of the introduction of gloves, gutta-percha tissue and silver foil
By: by William Stewart Halsted
Contributors: Brödel, Max, 1870-1941, illustrator
Publisher: Welch Bibliophilic Society
Published: 1939
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 34
Subjects: Hemorrhage; Prevention & control; Sutures; Surgical Gloves; Gutta-Percha; Silk; Silver; Aseptic and antiseptic Surgery; Wounds and injuries; Treatment
Other titles: Use of silk in surgery
Notes: "The illustrations are from the original drawings by Max Brodel." --Foreward.

"Originally published in the J. Am. Med. Assn., Chicago, 60, 1119-1126, 1913. Republished in the Surgical papers of Williams Stewart Halsted, vol. I, pp. 29-45, Baltimore, 1924 from which this edition is republished."--Foot-note, p. 1.