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When did the stitching of an open wound/laceration first began being accepted and practised in the medical field?
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Excellent question: And a very interesting history too long for my 400 allotted characters. Please see this short monograph: http://www.Ncbi.Nlm.Nih.Gov/pubmed/9562762.
Answered 4/30/2014
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