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For you medical folks, or anyone who's assembled a period first-aid kit:
What's the best modern equivalent of adhesive plaster? It shows up fairly often in period civilian and military treatment of minor (and major) cuts and injuries, and sounds like a useful thing to have.
The period recipes contain litharge, which I'm not even sure is still easily available for purchase today, and there were problems even then with the adhesive causing skin irritation.
Is there a modern product that's close to period adhesive plaster, or a formula to make it with that's similar to the period, but safe to use as a first-aid measure on real minor injuries? To match the period formula, it seems it should need to be warmed before being applied.
Then there's also court plaster, which apparently was less adhesive and needed to be wetted before being applied. Any experience reproducing that?
Hank Trent
hanktrent@voyager.net
What's the best modern equivalent of adhesive plaster? It shows up fairly often in period civilian and military treatment of minor (and major) cuts and injuries, and sounds like a useful thing to have.
The period recipes contain litharge, which I'm not even sure is still easily available for purchase today, and there were problems even then with the adhesive causing skin irritation.
Is there a modern product that's close to period adhesive plaster, or a formula to make it with that's similar to the period, but safe to use as a first-aid measure on real minor injuries? To match the period formula, it seems it should need to be warmed before being applied.
Then there's also court plaster, which apparently was less adhesive and needed to be wetted before being applied. Any experience reproducing that?
Hank Trent
hanktrent@voyager.net