Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1895 — Absorbable Tissue For Wounds. [ARTICLE]

Absorbable Tissue For Wounds.

J. Lustok has patented a process in Germany under which the muscular coating of the intestines of, animals is divested of both the interior and exterior layers of mucous membrane, and then digested in a pepsin solution until the muscular fibres are half digested. This is then treated with tannin and gallic acid. The result is a tissue which can take the place of the natural skin, and which, when laid on the wound, is entirely absorbed during the healing process.