Just Add Water
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Title
Just Add Water
Subject
Standard Packets of Sulfadiazine Tablets both wrapped and unwrapped
Description
The brown packets shown in one of the pictures in this set are individual sulfadiazine tablet packages. These drugs were given to each soldier in his first aid kit. These tablets, shown unpackaged in the second photograph, came in packs of eight. A wounded soldier, as long as he was not wounded in a dangerous area like the abdomen or throat, was to swallow 4 grams of the tablets (all eight tablets) over a certain period of time until he could get further surgical attention for his wounds.
Fittingly called "Wound Tablets," these sulfa drugs were something that nurses in all arenas of the war were trained to recognize and use. They were likely something that individual nurses also had in their own first aid kits in the field.
Fittingly called "Wound Tablets," these sulfa drugs were something that nurses in all arenas of the war were trained to recognize and use. They were likely something that individual nurses also had in their own first aid kits in the field.
Creator
US Army and the Upjohn Company
Source
World War 2 United States Medical Research Center Website: "Class 9 Items: Drugs, Chemicals and Biological Stains Sulfa Drugs,"Some Items Courtesy of Johan Willaert: https://www.med-dept.com/medical-kits-contents/class-9-items-drugs-chemicals-and-biological-stains-sulfa-drugs/
Publisher
World War 2 United States Medical Research Center
Date
Accessed April 24, 2020
Rights
All Rights Reserved
Format
Color Photographs of Physical Tablets and Tablet Packets
Language
English
Type
Physical Objects
Identifier
Wound Packets of Word War II
Coverage
Medicine and First Aid in World War II
Collection
Citation
US Army and the Upjohn Company , “Just Add Water,” US Nurses in World War II, accessed April 27, 2024, https://usnursesww2.omeka.net/items/show/44.