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Hallo Kleszcz,
I have a translation of the Contents List for an Army Vehicle First Aid box or Verbandkasten. This particular example was made around 1943.
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Verbandkasten
Table of contents and usage instructions
A. Basic Medical Equipment and Surgical Dressings
1. 1 straight Scissors, or Clothing Scissors (Schmidt Shears).
a) For cutting the string of the package after opening its blue paper cover.
b) For cutting bandages, muslin strips, Zinc Adhesive Rubber plaster.
c) To cut open clothing or boots.
The new model of clothing scissors has a special device (next to the large screw) for cutting of the wire (Cramer) splint.
Note: Sometimes included a pair of anatomical tweezers (Pinzette) and an additional pair of small bandage scissors.
2. 1 Tourniquet.
For compression of arterial bleeding at arms and legs.
3. 1 Combination Package (muslin strips and muslin bandages), For placing on dressings.
4. 1 Package 100g ordinary Cotton Wool.
For padding dressings, splints
5. 1 Package 100g Cellulose Wool.
6. 1 triangular Cloth Bandage.
a) For a sling
b) For Head-, Neck-, Shoulder-, Elbow-, Hand-, Knee-, Foot dressing.
c) To fasten splints.
d) For auxiliary compression with arterial bleeding of arms or legs. Wind the cloth loosely around upper arm or thigh above the site of bleeding, tie it firmly, place between the knot a piece of wood, pocket knife, or such like, turn this around until the bleeding stops, and secure it with a tie. If this does not stop the bleeding or because of the position of the wound an upper site is not accessible, then place a cork, wood button, cloth double knot, a rolled bandage or a round, smooth stone, covered with sterile muslin, onto the dressed wound, fasten this by two to three ties and knotted closely together. Between this and the dressing insert the toggle and turn it, until the bleeding stops, and secure it by a tie.
7. 20 Safety Pins
To fasten
a) the bandage ends,
b) the point of the sling.
8. 2 Wire (Cramer) Splints, 80 x 8 cm )
9. 1 Wood/Board Splint, 33 x 10 cm ) to splint broken Arms or Legs.
10. 4 small and 2 large Dressing Packs, with usage instructions inside.
11. 2 Burn Compresses.
Cover the site of the burn loosely with the pad S???cken of the burn compress and fasten this with a muslin bandage. (??? - damage to label)
B. Medicines
1. Roll Zinc Adhesive Plaster (Collemplastrum Zinci), 5 m x 2,5 cm
a) To fasten muslin strips to bandage,
b) To cover skin grazes.
2. 2 Ampoulles of 4 ccm Iodine, to coat wound edges.
3. 3 Short Schnellverband B. (10 cm). (Band Aid or similar)
Hess, Braunschweig-Munich-Berlin
Printed in Hess subsidiary, Brussels
S. P. 53 - 11-43
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Other variations of the Verbandkasten are those used by the Luftschutz. These have wooden interior linings.
Kevin
I have a translation of the Contents List for an Army Vehicle First Aid box or Verbandkasten. This particular example was made around 1943.
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Verbandkasten
Table of contents and usage instructions
A. Basic Medical Equipment and Surgical Dressings
1. 1 straight Scissors, or Clothing Scissors (Schmidt Shears).
a) For cutting the string of the package after opening its blue paper cover.
b) For cutting bandages, muslin strips, Zinc Adhesive Rubber plaster.
c) To cut open clothing or boots.
The new model of clothing scissors has a special device (next to the large screw) for cutting of the wire (Cramer) splint.
Note: Sometimes included a pair of anatomical tweezers (Pinzette) and an additional pair of small bandage scissors.
2. 1 Tourniquet.
For compression of arterial bleeding at arms and legs.
3. 1 Combination Package (muslin strips and muslin bandages), For placing on dressings.
4. 1 Package 100g ordinary Cotton Wool.
For padding dressings, splints
5. 1 Package 100g Cellulose Wool.
6. 1 triangular Cloth Bandage.
a) For a sling
b) For Head-, Neck-, Shoulder-, Elbow-, Hand-, Knee-, Foot dressing.
c) To fasten splints.
d) For auxiliary compression with arterial bleeding of arms or legs. Wind the cloth loosely around upper arm or thigh above the site of bleeding, tie it firmly, place between the knot a piece of wood, pocket knife, or such like, turn this around until the bleeding stops, and secure it with a tie. If this does not stop the bleeding or because of the position of the wound an upper site is not accessible, then place a cork, wood button, cloth double knot, a rolled bandage or a round, smooth stone, covered with sterile muslin, onto the dressed wound, fasten this by two to three ties and knotted closely together. Between this and the dressing insert the toggle and turn it, until the bleeding stops, and secure it by a tie.
7. 20 Safety Pins
To fasten
a) the bandage ends,
b) the point of the sling.
8. 2 Wire (Cramer) Splints, 80 x 8 cm )
9. 1 Wood/Board Splint, 33 x 10 cm ) to splint broken Arms or Legs.
10. 4 small and 2 large Dressing Packs, with usage instructions inside.
11. 2 Burn Compresses.
Cover the site of the burn loosely with the pad S???cken of the burn compress and fasten this with a muslin bandage. (??? - damage to label)
B. Medicines
1. Roll Zinc Adhesive Plaster (Collemplastrum Zinci), 5 m x 2,5 cm
a) To fasten muslin strips to bandage,
b) To cover skin grazes.
2. 2 Ampoulles of 4 ccm Iodine, to coat wound edges.
3. 3 Short Schnellverband B. (10 cm). (Band Aid or similar)
Hess, Braunschweig-Munich-Berlin
Printed in Hess subsidiary, Brussels
S. P. 53 - 11-43
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Other variations of the Verbandkasten are those used by the Luftschutz. These have wooden interior linings.
Kevin