Klarinet Archive - Posting 000172.txt from 2006/02

From: Tim Roberts <timr@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Eb barrel?
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 13:25:30 -0500

On Sat, 11 Feb 2006 12:08:00 -0500, "Rommel John Miller"
<rjmiller@-----.net> wrote:

>Does anyone here read the "Straight Dope" column by Cecil Adams?
>

I didn't realize he was still alive. I have 4 or 5 collections of his
columns, but they are all from the 1980s. I assumed he stopped
producing long ago. I see now that I was wrong.

>We will soon find out where the jury stands on suture-less bindings, as they
>are still out on the problem riddled staple-bindings (in surgery) and also
>the rate of secondary infection in minimally invasive surgery cases.
>...
>Sorry Mark, but as much as I like the K-I-S-S solution, I have to say that
>over-simplification is often too lax and too lazy a way out, and leads to
>more problems than just fixing what was wrong in the first place.
>

Rommel, you have missed the point. Mark was not arguing that
cyanoacrylate skin bindings are the right way to replace sutures, nor
was he even advocating their use. Mark was simply responding to the
assertion that using a cyanoacrylate glue to repair a barrel crack was
dangerous, because of potential cyanide poisoning, by pointing out that
cyanoacrylates are used by the medical community in direct contact with
skin wounds.

--
Tim Roberts, timr@-----.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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