Horsehair Surgical

Horsehair is a thread consisting of cartilage or bone tissue that was used to stitch wounds in ancient times. Stitching is a basic procedure in surgery that requires joining tissues together to heal wounds and repair damaged organs. Although the use of horsehair was considered one of the first surgical techniques, it continues to be used in some cases, such as suturing tendons for injuries or suturing blood vessels.

It is believed that the use of horsehair began about 3 thousand years ago and is associated with the use of iron. Doctors first used horsehair to stitch a child's wound in 200 BC. Horsehair itself is not a very good suture material, as it is a natural piece of bone and cannot be tied together easily. However, due to its natural property of strengthening the connection between two tissues, this method is successfully used today.

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