Hi Scott; What hurts more the initial cut or the super glue "repair"?? Wayne
--- On Mon, 4/19/10, Scott Bearden <scott.bear...@gmail.com> wrote: From: Scott Bearden <scott.bear...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [VFB] Superglue To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com Date: Monday, April 19, 2010, 9:22 PM While making bamboo rods, I seem to get cut quite often, many different ways, and often they are like deep paper cuts. Bamboo can be sharp as a razor. Anyways, super glue stings a bit, but it immediately coagulates the blood and stops the bleeding. And it heals up faster and with less scarring than just bandages and neosporin. Scott On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Allan Fish <afi...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: Hi Allen; You ever use superglue to seal a wound?? Probably at least daily in the winter when my fingers crack open. A dermatologiist put me on to it a long time ago (around 1986 or 1987). Gee. It's surprising that superglue has been around that long! Had to look it up. Here's what Wikipedia (the do-it-yourself encyclopedia) has to say about it's first uses: Superglue was in veterinary use for mending bone, hide, and tortoise shell by at least the early 1970s. The inventor of cyanoacrylates, Harry Coover, said in 1966 that a superglue spray was used in the Vietnam War to retard bleeding in wounded soldiers until they could be brought to a hospital. As it can irritate the skin, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration did not approve superglue's civilian medical use until 1998 when a variant called 2-octyl-cyanoacrylate was developed a.-- Allan Fish Greenwood, IN afi...@sbcglobal.net -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com
