Christia Bandages from Manilla Hemp - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 37119 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 170.04 MUSACEAE Musa textilis | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Christia Bandages from Manilla Hemp | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Not defined | TDWG Region | Not defined | ||
| Parts Held | Christia Bandages from Manilla Hemp | Geography Description | |||
| Uses | Christia Bandages from Manilla HempUse: MEDICINES - Injuries User: Man | TDWG use | MEDICINES - Injuries | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Pharm Soc GB | Donor No | 38 A 8 | ||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | St Barts Hospt. Museum Date: 00/04/1931x0Dx0A | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: Patented by T. Christy, Christy & Co. Lime St. Christia: This is a new production for antisceptic bandages, invented and patented by Mr T. Christy of 25 Lime Street. It is constructed of thin whitey brown paper, expressly made of Manilla He, mp (Musa textilis), which consists purely of a remarkably long liber fibres, which doubtless tend to give it a greater tenacity. It is then subjected to a process with glycerine, olive oil, and other substances, which render it translucent, with the appea, rance of oiled silk. It subsequently is treated with salicylic acid, carbolic acid, or other disinfectant, and rendered anticeptic. Its advantages are great tenacity, extreme lightness, being not more than 1/3 of the weight of oiled silk or gutta percha s, heeting, anticeptic, and perfectly impervious to moisture. It was thought that it would prove so exceedingly useful in horticulture, e.g. for binding up in budding, sending specimens by post when the exclusion of air is essential, while strips would be se, rviceable for tying plants to stakes etc. | ||||