Posted on Mar 26, 2020
March 26, 1845: A Sticky Application for an Old Problem
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On March 26, 1845, a patent was awarded for adhesive medicated plaster, a precursor of the band-aid. From the article:
"March 26, 1845: A Sticky Application for an Old Problem
__1845: __Drs. Horace Harrell Day and William H. Shecut receive patent No. 3,965 for an adhesive medicated plaster, in other words, a wound dressing that stuck on its own. It was the forerunner of the Band-Aid.
Samuel Gross had reported on using adhesive medicated plasters in a Philadelphia medical journal in 1830. Day and Shecut's innovation was to dissolve rubber in a solvent and then paint it on fabric. After obtaining a patent for the improved process, they sold the rights to Dr. Thomas Allcock, who sold it under the name Allcock's Porous Plaster."
"March 26, 1845: A Sticky Application for an Old Problem
__1845: __Drs. Horace Harrell Day and William H. Shecut receive patent No. 3,965 for an adhesive medicated plaster, in other words, a wound dressing that stuck on its own. It was the forerunner of the Band-Aid.
Samuel Gross had reported on using adhesive medicated plasters in a Philadelphia medical journal in 1830. Day and Shecut's innovation was to dissolve rubber in a solvent and then paint it on fabric. After obtaining a patent for the improved process, they sold the rights to Dr. Thomas Allcock, who sold it under the name Allcock's Porous Plaster."
March 26, 1845: A Sticky Application for an Old Problem
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