Getting a new knife for the kitchen is a great event most of the time because the new ones would be so sharp!
Of course more sharp also means that you can get cut more easily!
A clean new knife also makes a clean cut! That is the only solace since the cut normally happens when you are in a hurry and you have to cook a lot of food!
I have lost counts the amount of cuts I have had and continued with the little thing which kept the ‘area’ blood free!
Yes the band aid! Band aids are one of the best inventions ever! Wrap them up and you are good to go!
Of course when we were kids, even small cuts used to get wrapped in them and we used to get cuts just so that we could wear them!
The competition was to see who could wear them the longest! The clean brown dressing would become dirty and half open and slowly try to escape! But we held on! Later on removing them was a hassle if you had hair!
Did you know that this amazing invention was done by a dutiful husband who did not want to see his blood wife! I mean his wife with blood! I mean blood on his wife…You get the drill!
So in the early 1920s, there were no proper methods to bind up minor cuts.
Earle Dickson, was a Johnson & Johnson employee, in Highland Park, New Jersey and when he saw his wife Josephine frequently cut and burned herself while cooking, he made a portable dressing with cotton and a adhesive!
The prototype allowed her to dress her wounds without assistance!
Dickson passed the idea on to his employer, which went on to produce and market the product as the Band-Aid.
Dickson had a successful career at Johnson & Johnson, rising to vice president before his retirement in 1957.
Initially, Band-Aids were sold as a single 18-inch long strip of tape that had to be cut into smaller pieces in order to be applied to wounds!
Later on these were cut down to the present size and now they even come as a spot! Later on they have also come as waterproof ones!
So the original Band-Aids were handmade and not very popular.
By 1924, Johnson & Johnson introduced machine-made Band-Aids and began the sale of sterilized Band-Aids in 1939!
In World War II, millions were shipped overseas, helping popularize the product. Since then, Johnson & Johnson has estimated a sale of over 100 billion Band-Aids worldwide!
In 2022, Band-Aid was named the most trusted brand in the United States, beating the second place brand, Lysol, by more than two points! So much so that just like Xerox which has replaced the actual word Photocopy; the little adhesive dressing is called Band-aid no matter the brand!
Talking about safety comes to mind the Padma award winner Bipin Ganatra! He is a fire fighter volunteer and his life will inspire you like fire!
Do read about him!
Shubh ratri!
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