Sorry Timmy, you didn’t use Johnson & Johnson products to treat that cut so we had to CUT YOUR ARM OFF [1936]
by acidmine
Sorry Timmy, you didn’t use Johnson & Johnson products to treat that cut so we had to CUT YOUR ARM OFF [1936]
by acidmine
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This how they’d advertise band-aids in Cyperpunk world.
In all fairness, antibiotics weren’t commercially available for another decade or so after this ad was published to it might not have been *that* dramatic …
This isn’t wrong. We take a lot for granted including the cleanliness and sterility of bandages/ bandaids. Before antibiotics, you were screwed if a wound was kept as clean as possible and a lot of times that wasn’t enough. There wasn’t a lot of things to kill “germs” that didn’t also damage the tissue
Infection prior to antibiotics was a great concern. My grandfather had to have an infected finger amputated when he was young when they couldn’t get the infection under control.
Years later, when I was a little kid, the family liked to play a prank on me. Count grandpa’s fingers! Not ten? You must have miscounted, try again!
Why did I hear the subject line in my head in Troy McClure’s voice?
It’s not that dramatic. Only a decade earlier in 1924 16 year old Calvin Coolidge Jr., son of the then president, got a blood blister while playing tennis. He had forgone wearing his socks. Not thinking anything of it he ignored the area. Soon it became infected. His blood poisoned. The boy died a few weeks later only days after his father’s birthday.
So yeah, make sure you use the right tools when it comes to cuts y’all.
Funny coincidence, I was just listening to the episode of Swindled podcast about Johnson & Johnson and how their baby powder gave women cancer.
Available at the Fearmonger’s Shop.
Writing is one thing; how did that kid tie his tie?
Thought this was r/deluxefuxley for a second there