A nurse demonstrates the use of a new tourniquet, June 1945
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Photograph. A nurse demonstrates the use of a new tourniquet. Official Caption: "Rome, 6/6/45--Gangrene-eliminating tourniquet demonstrated--The new 'Conn Type Pneumatic Tourniquet', partially inflated, is held by a nurse to demonstrate its simplicity of construction. Developed under the direction of Dr. Harold R. Conn for U.S. Army and Navy hospitals and surgical units, the appliance consists of an inflatable rubberized fabric tube several inches wide reinforced outside by a longer rubberized, fabric belt. This tourniquet almost totally eliminates danger of post-operative gangrene.-PME Photo--Serviced by Rome OWI (A List Out). Approved by appropriate military authority. 6545."Location unknown. 6 June 1945
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06/06/1945
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Items from the service of Isaac "Ike" Bethel Utley, who was born in Smith Mills, Kentucky on 3 March 1920. Ike enlisted in the Army Air Corps on 19 January 1942. He was shipped overseas to the European Theatre and worked with a supply division based out of the city of Naples with an office set up in a residential villa. Utley worked with the Office of War Information and used their photographs in news articles to inform soldiers of the progress of the war. At war's end, Utley returned stateside. A trunk full of over 800 photographs from the O.W.I. arrived on his doorstep from his office in Italy, sender unknown. This collection consists of those photographs.
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Medical equipment & supplies
Nurses--American