Hi Martin,
so kenn' ich das nicht mit den Aborigines - hatte da immer nur was anderes gehört, nämlich das hier:
"Western scientists were not the first people to recognize the antibiotic properties of bull ant secretions. After a story about the discovery ran on Australian television, one of the scientists involved received a call from an old Aboriginal woman. She told him that when she or her brothers or sisters cut themselves when they were kids, her mother would throw a clean cloth into a bull ant colony, stir it around with a stick, then shake the angry ants off and apply the cloth to the wound, knowing that the secretions of the ants that seeped into the cloth would prevent infection."
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Hab' aber auch was passendes für Dich gefunden:
"One example is the ancient technique of using biting insects to suture a wound. Ants and beetles are good for this since they have well-developed mandibles. Many primitive people throughout the world still use this procedure for wounds.
How does insect suturing work? First, you catch the insect and induce it to spread out its jaws. When the jaws of the insect are open, pinch the skin together and let the insect clamp down on the folds. Once the jaws are clamped in place, the head of the insect is pinched off. The head, with the jaws, remains in place and provides a suture. This technique is very much like the metal staples that modern surgeons use as sutures."
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Das ist aber auch in Indien bekannt:
"According to others ... large black ants should be applied ... and their bodies should be separated from their heads after they had firmly bitten the perforated parts with their jaws. After that the intestines with the heads of the ants attached to them should be gently pushed back into the cavity and reinstated in their original situation therein".
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Wenn Du über Google nach "aborigines ants wound suture" suchst, findest Du ein paar Infos.
Gruss.
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