誰發(fā)明了創(chuàng)可貼?
[ 2007-03-19 14:16 ]
創(chuàng)可貼是一種簡(jiǎn)單好用的外科用藥，很多人家里常備藥箱中都有。我們經(jīng)常會(huì)用到創(chuàng)可貼，但不知大家用的時(shí)候有沒有想過創(chuàng)可貼到底是怎么來的？是誰發(fā)明了它？就讓下面這篇文章為您揭開答案。
 Earle Dickson, an employee of Johnson and Johnson developed
the Band-Aid@ in 1920 for his accident-prone
wife, Josephine. His employer, Johnson and Johnson, a company launched by
pharmacist Robert Johnson and his two brothers, produced large, dry, cotton and
gauze dressings, which remained sterile in
germ-resistant packaging until opened. They
formed their Company upon the premise set forth by Sir Joseph Lister, of
Listerine fame, at a speech given in
Philadelphia in 1876, that surgical procedures should be sterile, to reduce the
alarmingly high post-operative mortality
rates, which were 90% in Britain at the time.
Earle attached small pieces of this sterile
gauze, produced by his employer, to the center of strips of surgical tape to bandage poor Josephine's wounds. A
colleague of his encouraged him to pitch his invention to Management, which he
did. Management initially dismissed his idea, but later reversed its position
when Earle demonstrated how easily the bandage could easily be applied by
oneself. The powers that be realized the earning potential of this invention,
snatched Earle's idea, and ran with it.
The original bandages Johnson and Johnson produced, were not only handmade,
but were rather large in size at 2 1/2" in width, and 18" in length. Needless to
say, first year sales left much to be desired. By 1924, Johnson and Johnson
revamped the production process of the
Band-Aid@ by using machines, and by cutting down the size of the product. Sales
skyrocketed, and Earle's vision became a reality.
By the time of his death in 1961, after being rewarded by Johnson and Johnson
with a token vice-presidency and later with a seat on the Board of Directors,
sales of the Band-Aid@ exceeded $30,000,000, and production to date exceeds one
hundred billion. All of this wealth can be attributed to a frustrated husband
with an idea, a clumsy, accident-prone wife, a piece of sterile gauze, and a
piece of surgical tape.
accident-prone: 易出事故的
gauze: 紗布
germ-resistant: 抗菌的
Listerine: 李斯特防腐液
post-operative mortality rates: 術(shù)后死亡率
sterile gauze: 消毒紗布
surgical tape: 外用繃帶
revamp: 修補(bǔ)
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