Two unidentified Australian burns patients are soaking in saline baths to have their dressings ...

Accession Number P01641.013
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Film copy negative
Maker Unknown
Place made British Mandate of Palestine: Palestine, Kafr Balu
Date made February 1942
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Two unidentified Australian burns patients are soaking in saline baths to have their dressings changed. After the dressings are soaked off the patients would be gently removed, fanned dry, sprayed with sulphanilamide powder and then dressed with a home made ‘tulle gras’ dressing. This facility is in ward 1, the burns ward, of the 2/7th Australian General Hospital.

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