Monday evening we had a class on suturing, and it was as awesome as it sounds. After learning some history and theory, we dove in and some bananas with some pretty serious wounds. Number #1 fact about suturing? It's hard. 

During the class, I was particularly excited to learn that the oldest known suture dates to a mummy from 1100 BC, even though historians believe the practice goes back much further, to at least 3000 BC, and perhaps...

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