WORLD WAR I BANDAGES WITH PRINTED ILLUSTRATIONS
Pair of triangular cotton or linen bandages, each approx. 51" x 24". Both are examples of "Esmarch bandages", designed to expel blood from a limb cut off by a tourniquet. The first bears the printed title "Der erste Verband nach Professor Esmarch"("The first Dressing from Professor Esmarch"), after its inventor, Friedrich von Esmarch, as well as some further manufacturing information. It features a printed illustration of six wounded men, demonstrating thirty-two methods of application for the bandage. The second bandage reproduces this illustration, but with the title "For First Aid, Esmarch Bandage, Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick, New Jersey, U.S.A.". This American version further demonstrates the potential use of the bandage as a tourniquet or as an ocular dressing. The second bandage is somewhat faded, while both bear minor soiling, else very good.