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Originally Posted by Tom9589
My wife is from Kingsport, TN, home of Tennessee Eastman. Eastman came out with one of the first cyanoacrylate glues, called Eastman 910, in the late 60s. It was pulled from the market when they discovered that doctors were using it to "glue" incisions on people. I managed to snag a tube and it was absolutely amazing at gluing things back together. No, I didn't use it on any wounds, but 30 years later a similar product was used on some major surgery I had. Worked great.
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I had read or understood that the product was developed as a temporary means of mending injuries in battle during the Vietnam War.