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Date Posted: 01:11:50 08/19/07 Sun
Author: Paul S.
Subject: Re: Lucky accident
In reply to: Toy tiger 's message, "Re: Lucky accident" on 16:39:54 08/11/07 Sat

>>
>>>>The suprising thing was how the treated the cut on
>>her
>>>>head. They superglued it! i thought the nurse was
>>>>joking when he said it, but no! He actually used a
>>>>tube of superglue and glued her head!
>>
>>I've heard that Superglue was originally invented in
>>the trenches to glue people back together quickly.
>>Might be an urban myth, though.
>
>Probably. It made its commercial appearance in the mid
>70s, as I recall. I hardly ever use it for anything.
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I'd heard that superglue was originally a medical product. So I did a web search and found this:

In 1964, the Tennessee Eastman lab submitted its first application for new drug approval to the FDA. The military learned of this new glue and became extremely interested in its potential for use in field hospitals. MASH units in Vietnam were overloaded. Many solders were dying from chest and abdominal wounds, despite the best efforts of medics. In 1966 a special surgical team was flown to Vietnam, trained and equipped to use cyanoacrylate adhesive. A quick spray over the wounds stopped bleeding and bought time until conventional surgery could be performed. The possibilities were immediately seized by the medical communities of Europe and the Far East.

This is from <a rel=nofollow target=_blank href="http://www.fensende.com/Users/swnymph/refs/glue.html">http://www.fensende.com/Users/swnymph/refs/glue.html</a>

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