Film

Manufacture of strings and catgut

Polygoon-Profilti (producent)

At the Europeana

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About

Manufacturing by white-collar men and women of strings and catgut (=medical suturing material for operations) at the N.V. Eerste Nederlandsche Snaaren en Catgutfabriek-Hakkert in Rotterdam. The following are dealt with in succession: processing the base material, i.e. sheep intestines, which are cleaned and checked for porosity and split; removing any traces of fat from the intestines; twisting into strings and drying; grinding and cylindricalizing; sterilizing; drying, sorting and wrapping the strings; laboratory analysis of the strings; packing the sterile end-product in glass ampoules; application in an operating theatre.

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