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Brother Buzz

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10. That's my take, too

Reply to FSogol (Reply #4)

Thu Jan 18, 2018, 04:01 PM

Jan 2018

Back then, there were antiseptics that contained iodine, sulfur, mercury, and the like, but they hardly compare with the antibiotics we use today.

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Without the Boy Scouts, Band-Aids might not have stuck around [View all] FSogol Jan 2018 OP

When I was a kid, back in the late 1950s, early 1960s rsdsharp Jan 2018 #1

Just googling that book (which I think my sister had) there are versions that came with actual FSogol Jan 2018 #2

Let's play Doctor and Nurse, OK? MineralMan Jan 2018 #5

Great fun! FSogol Jan 2018 #6

My mom and a neighbor once walked in on me MineralMan Jan 2018 #7

LOL, did the lesson about keeping your clothes on work? n/t FSogol Jan 2018 #8

Yeah...no... MineralMan Jan 2018 #9

I am curious about this "antibiotic cream" cyclonefence Jan 2018 #3

Could have been petroleum jelly with lanolin which was used for burns. Doubtful that it was a true FSogol Jan 2018 #4

That's my take, too Brother Buzz Jan 2018 #10

It was probably an antiseptic and not an antibiotic LeftInTX Jan 2018 #11

I bet you're right cyclonefence Jan 2018 #14

I was spared of Gentian violet LeftInTX Jan 2018 #15

Possably sulfa powder in a liquid base. n/t oneshooter Jan 2018 #12

Sulfa was introduced in the 1930s. jmowreader Jan 2018 #13

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