RISE ABOVE ASEPTIC TECHNIQUES AND STANDARDIZE OF THE STERILIZATION OF  STATUERES

 “The birth of antisepsis had been heralded by Oliver Wendell Holmes in America … but a mother could still exclaim when asked permission to operate, ‘It’s easy to give consent but who’s going to pay for her funeral? [1] The suture before the practice of aseptic techniques was a source of the infection of either the wound or the surgical site. Since the development of proper sterilization procedure during the process of making sutures in the late nineteenth century. Sutures are an old technology that is used to treat a variety of injuries and surgical incisions. The safety of suture has changed over time as described in the quote above.   It shows that in a time before standardized suture sterilization, the chances of a person recovering from surgery were as low as the success of the surgery.

In this paper, I will explore the changes in sterilization techniques used by surgeons in the 1880s to the 1930s, and how those changes lead to standardized sterilization of sutures as a