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Earl Thomson Essay

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“Ouch, I cut myself.” Those are the words that gave Earl Dickson his first thought of a band aid. During the year 1921, Earl Dickson changed the world forever. Due to the invention of the band aid, people have found better ways to keep their wounds clean. The band-aid is a necessary part of most medical procedures. In hospitals, band-aids are used to keep ligaments in place and cover a wound.(The 1920’s inventions.com)This means that hospitals use bandages to hold Ur skin and muscle so that it is easier to wrap and protect it from the dirt and other germs. Without a band aid keeping a cut clean would be so difficult. Band-aids were a very simple creation that has changed in many ways. Earl Dickson got tape cut it into strips and put a little

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