The “medical” practice of branding babies is younger than John McCain.
According to the December 1938 issue of Popular Science, “a new hand-type ultraviolet-ray lamp makes it easier for nurses in a Brooklyn, N.Y., hospital to brand the initials of a new-born baby on his skin to prevent identification mix-ups in the hospital nursery. Soft ultra-violet rays pass through stenciled initials placed within the easily handled unit to tan the letters on the infant as well as on the mother. Harmless, the identification brand is said to remain visible for a period of two weeks.”
Ho. Lee. Shit.
i like it. no garbage. how much do they charge for that little bracelet now?
Comment by pansypoo — August 7, 2008 @ 12:23 am
The bathrobe-clad mom on the right looks like she might be Dick Cheney’s mom.
Comment by Troy — August 7, 2008 @ 1:48 pm
dick cheeney is younger than mcPOW.
Comment by pansypoo — August 7, 2008 @ 2:21 pm
That’s amazing…
Comment by allie0720 — August 7, 2008 @ 9:43 pm
this was disturbing..but interesting…
Now since we are talking about medical things younger than Johnny McCramps…and he would bleed us dry….
Perfected Safe Blood Transfusions are younger than John ( 1939-1950)
In the late 1930s and early 1940s, Dr. Charles R. Drew’s research led to the discovery that blood could be separated into blood plasma and red blood cells, and that the plasma could be frozen separately. Blood stored in this way lasted longer and was less likely to become contaminated.
Another important breakthrough came in 1939-40 when Karl Landsteiner, Alex Wiener, Philip Levine, and R.E. Stetson discovered the Rhesus blood group system, which was found to be the cause of the majority of transfusion reactions up to that time. Three years later, the introduction by J.F. Loutit and Patrick L. Mollison of acid-citrate-dextrose (ACD) solution, which reduces the volume of anticoagulant, permitted transfusions of greater volumes of blood and allowed longer term storage.
Carl Walter and W.P. Murphy, Jr., introduced the plastic bag for blood collection in 1950. Replacing breakable glass bottles with durable plastic bags allowed for the evolution of a collection system capable of safe and easy preparation of multiple blood components from a single unit of whole blood. Further extending the shelf life of stored blood was an anticoagulant preservative, CPDA-1, introduced in 1979, which increased the blood supply and facilitated resource-sharing among blood banks.
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