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Who invented the wet cat?

Joseph Lister invented the cat gut stitches but were the cat's he got the guts from alive or dead?

  • Joseph Lister invented the cat gut stitches which were literally stitches made out of strung out cat guts, but I want to know did he get the guts from cats that were already dead or did he have to kill cats to get the guts out.

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    You can safely assume that the cat was alive some time BEFORE he took its guts, but certainly dead AFTER he had taken them. The apostrophe was an innocent bystander.

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No cats were harmed in the making of this answer! And none ever divested of their internal organs. Catgut was (and still is) made from the intestines of animals used in the food industry, and soaked for a long time to clean them before being prepared for this special type of sewing thread. Catgut is a corruption of an old word, something like kittlegut, meaning fiddle string.

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