Ant jaw sutures: wounds healed by picnic pests.(The Sports Afield almanac: news, tips, facts, and lore)(Brief Article)

In Animal Wonder World, published in 1951, there's an account of how ants were used in Smyrna by barbers who also practiced as amateur surgeons: "The barber presses together the lips of the wound with his left hand, and applies each ant by means of forceps held in his right hand. The mandibles of the ant, being wide open and the animal in a defensive attitude, when the insect is slowly brought to the wound it seizes …