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DO YOU REMEMBER
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TIMES PAST
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DO
YOU REMEMBER
Washing everything
with bleach, salt or vinegar
Using Spit! (On to
a handkerchief if you're being posh!!)
Of course - first
and last resort, for windows to suppurating wounds a good spit
Magnesium Sulphate
Kaolin poultice to
draw "it" out if I recall
Apparently you
could do the same with bread!
Egg white &
Oxygen anyone?
Opium tincture.
OMG - The starch,
the cap folds, what do I do with the starch...?!
And let's not
forget EUSOL?!
Edinburgh University
Solution Of Lime. Gloopy!
MILTONs ! ... for
sterilising?
Savlon - we used to
dump all our A&E instruments in it
Wounds - And Wash
it out first with...? Hydrogen peroxide!!!
Gentian stained
fingers anyone ?
Soaked gauze ribbon
in it to pack wounds.
Improvement
measured by number of gauze packs!
Remember salt baths
pre and post Op?
And full
shave - for just about anything!
Nipples to
knees I think it was called
I recall giving a
soap & water enema prep as DN
But what about
treacle?!
Nelsons inhaler
with boiling water & friars balsam
Paraffin tulle
impregnated with honey?
Elastoplast &
Sleek on skin
Now recalling a
life before gloves
And aseptic
technique. Loved it!
Dressing procedures
with forceps prowess
Cutting dressing
packs open on a curve
NOSTALGIA
The 'Back' Trolley Take the Basket to the Linen - Not the Linen to the Basket Drapolene
Gets buckle out,
gives it a polish
Steam sterilisers ?
Steristrips were
'new' 1973/4?
Little Sister &
Cidex - till found to be carcinogenic
Patients #OT - bandage
rolling in the afternoon
Shiny bedpans
Pillow Case opening away from the Ward Entrance Folding back the top sheet = The fold back - length from elbow to finger tips 45 Degree Bed Corners Post Op Beds Windows we could open wide to the germs out
Old beds tall
head/foot boards & rails under bed
We cleaned the
whole bed down to wheels
Bed Wheels all lined up in the same direction
Beds like a huge cot!
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