Medic!

[Einion]

Originally posted by QuietiManes
If I remember correctly, that is what super glue was invented for. Glueing body parts back on. Or something very similar to super glue that super glue derived from. Read that somewhere.

That\'s an oft-repeated myth I\'m afraid. It was actually developed by accident - like so many things it seems - during WWII (yeah, I know, that far back?) while looking for a synthetic plastic for scopes or bombsights, something like that.

Originally posted by QuietiManes
I cut my thumb real bad one time, when I was a wee lad, around 6, with a razor blade, the old kind you don\'t see too much anymore, heavy duty single edge ones. Not too sure what I was thinking, something like \"this isn\'t so sharp!\" as I pushed it down against the tip. Shortly thereafter it hit the bone.

*shudder*

Einion

 

[Undave]

If you can believe Wiki:

Cyanoacrylate was discovered by Harry Coover at Eastman Kodak during World War II when searching for a way to make plastic gun-sight lenses. It did not solve this problem, since it stuck to all the apparatus used to handle it. It was first marketed to industry as well as consumers in February 1955 as a product called \"Flash Glue\" which is still available today and now owned by Gary Shipko, president of Super Glue International, a United States based firm. It was patented in 1956 and developed into Eastman 910 adhesive in 1958. The new glue was demonstrated in 1959 on the television show I\'ve Got a Secret when the host Garry Moore was lifted into the air by two steel plates held together with a drop of Eastman 910. Cyanoacrylates are now a family of adhesives based on similar chemistry.

I once sliced the tip of my left index finger down to the bone on the broken edge of a retracting tape measure. Finish shooting phase - press button- tape shoots back in via fingertip - ohhhhh that wasn\'t good...


Hurt like a :cussing: but not one single drop of blood, and no scar either.

 

[Friar]

I was doin somethin similar as a kid using a razor blade to cut something when I shouldn\'t have and well sliced the tip of my finger the razor hit my finger nail on one side and stopped the other side was bout half way thru but at an angle so it was to far down for the nail to stop it. Hurt like hell tho took a bit to settle in and I still got a fairly good scar

 

[Dragonsreach]

Used Superglue once to close a cut while at work.
Don\'t know what hurt worse the Deep paper cut or the Glue.

Did use a deriviative of it to cover the start of a blister while out hiking once, and that worked a treat.