Care of the Sick and Injured: Surgical Dressings (U.S. War Department, 1944)

[@sunnybearbuds]

Oh...a safety pin on the wound...I'm going to cry.

[@highonimmi]

Corpsman did. More than i thought. I tought they werre like cna,s back then. However, they do tasks i thought were for nurses only. I am truly impressed!

[@sunnybearbuds]

They did the best they could without gloves...oh dear...I'm dying inside.

[@militaryhistoryandsurvival5880]

Lol 😂 gloves was not a thing till the 70s

[@sunnybearbuds]

@@militaryhistoryandsurvival5880 True.

[@anythingspossible.]

Don't let the towel touch anything but your bare hands full of germs

[@sunnybearbuds]

Newspaper...oh dear.

[@mikesebphoto]

Man, those are some dull- ass scissors. That much hasn’t changed in 80 years! I can’t figure out what that metal tube is sticking out of that sailors back. Maybe a nephrostomy tube? Also, I absolutely love the narrators voice. Precise, no discernible regional accent, smooth enunciation and pitch variation. Waning days of the Mid Atlantic Accent.

[@boysad6462]

Not wearing medical gloves?

[@militaryhistoryandsurvival5880]

Not a thing till the 70s

[@sunnybearbuds]

They did the best they could with what existed at the time...I'm just a low-level nurse but this makes me feel like an expert in wound care! LOL!

[@charliegabs]

Yes, I also saw quite a few errors here but that's how it was before. I guess as a student someone can say, "it's not that I'm a bad practitioner, I'm just 1944 style!" 😂😂😂😂

[@sunnybearbuds]

@@charliegabs Good point.

[@anythingspossible.]

Elevator music ?

[@TheTraktergirl]

Yet the wounded survived these treatments. It's easy to criticize, especially now

[@sunnybearbuds]

Benzine? Oh geeze...