Book Review by Kevin Wolf   Silver Wire by Kriota Willberg provides a fascinating introduction to, history about, and descriptions of ligatures and sutures, and more. According to medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com ligature is “a thread or wire used in surgery to tie off blood vessels to prevent bleeding, or treat abnormalities in other parts of the body by constricting the tissues” and suture is stitch(es) to secure “edges of a surgical or traumatic wound.” The material used can be dissolvable (usually for internal stitching) or needing to be manually removed (external stitching usually). From Willberg’s research, “For millennia surgeons have been closing… Read More