Mercurochrome is for sissies. We had hydrogen peroxide.
Yeah reminds me of running track on those old cinder tracks. A tumble usually resulted in you getting a treatment of “cinder suds” applied with a toothbrush by the coach. Talk about pain, buddy!
Mercurochrome is for sissies. We had hydrogen peroxide.
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You are all wrong. It was straight alcohol on the farm.
I was unloading 5" shells (USN) and accidentally slammed a case against my small finger (think hammer meet anvil). Making chicken noises, I went to the corpsman as it was bleeding pretty good and I could see a small globule of fat sticking out.
He took one look, grabbed a rubber squeeze ball of merthiolate and flooded the wound with it. The pain was electric - I doubled over and made sounds like Igor, the Hunchback (hunah, hunah, hunah). Never had anything feel like that since. He bandaged it up, told me to quit acting like a girl, and sent me back to the work party. A week or so later, the skin on the finger peeled off like a glove.
Seventy years later it still aches when it is going to rain.