New Zealand Medical Services in Middle East and Italy

Wound Treatment

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Wound Treatment

As regards wound treatment, the utilisation of sulphanilamide, both locally to the wound and also by the mouth, was standardised and a special label introduced for the recording of dosage given during the evacuation to the Base.

Vaseline gauze was the normal wound dressing and this was available sterilised and in ample supply. Tulle gras dressings were also supplied.

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Title: New Zealand Medical Services in Middle East and Italy

Author: Stout, T. Duncan M.

Publication details: Historical Publications Branch, 1956, Wellington

Part of: The Official History of New Zealand in the Second World War 1939–1945

This text is the subject of: ‘Something of Them Is Here Recorded’: Official History in New Zealand

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