B&B Corrosive Sublimate Gauze
date: label: date made
content: ca. 1917
name: label: maker
content: Bauer & Black
notes: label: Description
content: 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.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Illinois, Chicago
topic: label: related event
content: World War I
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content: Military and Society: Armed Forces History, General
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Military
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content: Modern Medicine and the Great War
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: AF.303690D
label: catalog number
content: 303690D
label: accession number
content: 62728
objectType: label: Object Name
content: gauze, sublimate corrosive
label: Other Terms
content: gauze, sublimate corrosive; medical equipment
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: cardboard (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: mercuric chloride (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: 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