When you had a bad cut or a bad scrape when I was a kid in the 80s or 90s you either rubbed some dirt on it or used Mercurochrome. Apparently this was banned in 1998. TIL 😂 
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So many times that I used it as a kid😅
Monkey blood!! My mom probably still has the vial in the junk drawer where all the medical supplies were kept.
Never heard of it. But I have experienced having gentian violet applied to a face wound in the 70's. Not sure what its medical qualities were but it was a potent dye.
All due to the toxicological effects of mercury, Iodine gets the job done at this point
my mother never used that stuff. but i often would just walk around all day with a crusty graze.
yeah, mercurochrome leaves an orangish color, where iodine is more of a brown. potassium dichromate is one of the prettiest, but kinda toxic oxidisers you can play with in chemistry. i used an image of it in a web dev project when i was in computer college in 2003:
usually it was just washed with soap and water, nothing more.
yeah, usually with me if it needed anything more (she was a nurse and knew her hygiene very well) than a clean, which it usually didn't, she'd clean it and then put on some "Savlon", gauze and micropore/bandage/whatever. my mother was probably a really good nurse. i'd probably make a good nurse too, except i've got zero needle phobia and quite high pain tolerance so i might not be as sympathetic to a crybaby lol