Get a printable copy (PDF file) of the complete article (1.1M), or click on a page image below to browse page by page. Full textįull text is available as a scanned copy of the original print version. It is therefore suggested that this type of blade may find an appropriate use in special areas of modern surgery. The prismatic glass blade is infinitely sharper than a honed steel edge, and these blades can be produced in a wide variety of shapes and sizes.
Obsidian scalpel medical surgical skin#
Skin incisions in human patients have likewise healed well without complications. We have been able to demonstrate neither flaking of glass blades into the wounds nor any foreign body reaction in healed wounds. Animal experiments have shown the tensile strength of obsidian produced wounds to be equal to or greater than that of wounds produced by steel scalpels after 14 days of healing. Crabtree have been used in experimental microsurgery with excellent results. Don Crabtree, who suggested possible uses for the blades in modern surgery. Contemporary Surgery, in: The Western Journal of Medicine 136.3 (1982), 265269.
The technique of production of these blades was rediscovered 12 years ago by Dr. The relatively inexpensive obsidian scalpel is a good substitute for an.
In order to determine if skin incisions made with obsidian were superior to those made with standard surgical steel, wound tensile strength, scar width, and histology were assessed in 40 adult male Sprague-Dawley rats. The finest of these prismatic blades were produced in Mesoamerica about 2,500 years ago. There are several anecdotal clinical articles claiming wound healing and scar superiority using obsidian (volcanic glass) scalpels. Archaeologists have shown that ancient man developed the ability to produce cutting blades of an extreme degree of sharpness from volcanic glass.
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