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  • 1.  #TBT: Celebrating 100 years of the BAND-AID®

    Posted 04-15-2021 09:15:00 AM

    BAND-AID® adhesive bandages went on the market in 1921, about a year after they were invented by a Johnson & Johnson employee whose wife was “prone to slicing her fingers in the kitchen.” Early BAND-AIDs were made by hand and packaged as a roll you had to trim with scissors. And they weren’t initially popular—people didn’t understand how to use them—until traveling salesmen were hired to demonstrate the product to doctors, butchers, and pharmacists.

    Who remembers when BAND-AIDS were sold in tin boxes? That package debuted in 1926.

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    Stephanie Weiner
    Director, Digital Strategy & Engagement
    Association of American Medical Colleges
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  • 2.  RE: #TBT: Celebrating 100 years of the BAND-AID®

    Posted 04-16-2021 08:54:00 AM
    Thank you for this, Stephanie. I remember the tin cans. I wish that the original version was still available: it's clever, saves on packaging, and you always have the size you need!

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    LauraKasman
    Associate Professor
    MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SOUTH C
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  • 3.  RE: #TBT: Celebrating 100 years of the BAND-AID®

    Posted 04-16-2021 09:15:00 AM
    "I'm stuck on Band Aids and Bands Aids stuck on you."  The father of my first, and best friend at college, was the ad man (Mad Man) who wrote that jingle.  Thanks for the memory.

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    Thomas White
    Executive Director
    Penn Medicine
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  • 4.  RE: #TBT: Celebrating 100 years of the BAND-AID®

    Posted 04-16-2021 12:54:00 PM
    What a neat connection, @Thomas White! That jingle is such an earworm - I love it!

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    Stephanie Weiner
    Director, Digital Strategy & Engagement
    Association of American Medical Colleges
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  • 5.  RE: #TBT: Celebrating 100 years of the BAND-AID®

    Posted 04-16-2021 02:49:00 PM
    I refuse to admit that my band-aid tin cans were stained from the merthiolate that I applied to my scratches and cuts.  I can't possibly be that old.  For example, I can't even remember the string inside the protective cover for each band aid that you had to pull to open it up, because it was sterile, of course.  My string pulling would only make it halfway down and I had to pull the rest of the wrapper off completely negating the sterility.  I'm holding out for 3D bioprinting of replacement skin tissue that can be applied accurately to the shape of the scrape.  
    Thank you for a Friday question that didn't use up the little energy I have left.

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    John Pelley
    Professor
    Texas Tech HSC
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