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New Zealand Tablet, Volume II, Issue 78, 24 October 1874, Page 8

Catgttt. — Catgut is probably so named (if we may reason from many parallel cases) beca'iee it has no connection at all with the harmless necessary animal so directly alluded to. It is prepared from the intestines of the sheep or goat, and the manufacture is chiefly confined to Italy. The entrails are scraped, steeped in water until the outer membranes are softened so as to be readily removed, when they are again scraped. They are again steeped in a weak solution of potash in water for a varying period, when they are drawn throngh. perforated plates, thoroughly cleaned and disinfected with the fumes of burning sulphur, and then dried. A man wlio had been bitten by a wild cat, has since been subject to curious freaks of madness. The first steamer that appeared on the Pacific, and built more than thirty years ago, is tp be converted into a tow boat. She is perfectly sound.