This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citation map  • Citing articles on HighWire  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

SAMUEL C. HARVEY

Arch Surg. 1929;18(4):1227-1240.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

Certain characteristics of the healing of the simple incised, uncomplicated wound are, of course, familiar to the surgeon, and have been so since his kind first intelligently observed such a wound from day to day. Its edges "agglutinate," or become adherent to each other through the clotting of the blood. The strength of this adhesion is not sufficiently great for the first two or three days but that a minimum strain will separate the edges. If such is likely to occur, it is necessary to reinforce the "agglutination" with sutures. In from five to eight days it has become solidified, when, unless the strain on the wound is unusually great, the reinforcing action of the sutures is no longer necessary and they are removed. In from eight to twelve days, the strength of the wound is such that it meets the ordinary exigencies of daily life, and toward the end . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
From the Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Yale University.

Footnotes
The expense of this investigation has been defrayed by Davis & Geck, Inc.

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?