Object Details
- Bauer & Black
- Description
- Orange cardboard box containing one yard of corrosive sublimate gauze for field use in World War I. Typed on the box in black ink is: "B&B Corrosive / Sublimate Gauze / Compressed / 1 Yard / Prepared by / Bauer & Black / Chicago, U.S.A / Contract May, 1917." Corrosive sublimate, also known as mercuric chloride (HgCl2), was used as an antiseptic during the war.
- ca. 1917
- ID Number
- AF.303690D
- catalog number
- 303690D
- accession number
- 62728
- Object Name
- gauze, sublimate corrosive
- Other Terms
- gauze, sublimate corrosive; medical equipment
- Physical Description
- cardboard (overall material)
- mercuric chloride (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 3 1/2 in x 2 1/2 in x 3/4 in; 8.89 cm x 6.35 cm x 1.905 cm
- place made
- United States: Illinois, Chicago
- See more items in
- Military and Society: Armed Forces History, General
- Health & Medicine
- Military
- Modern Medicine and the Great War
- National Museum of American History
- related event
- World War I
- Record ID
- nmah_447785
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746b3-02ba-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
