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Johnson & Johnson Adhesive Plaster


 Greetings to all, at the beginning of 2014 I promised a new and multi-language blog, and so here I am trying to build the base for my experiment. Just a few time ago I spoke about one of the greatest producers of band aids, gauzes and chirurgical supplies in the USA: the Johnson & Johnson company.This “giant” of bandages was created in 1885, by actually three Johnson, Edward Mead Johnson and the brothers Robert and James Johnson, but the production of band aids did not start until 1920, when Earle Dickson invented the first “modern” plaster for his distracted wife.Since then this Johnson & Johnson product has entered all of our homes  and “Band Aid”, the name given to this new medication device by the company, is now a synonym for plaster. Such fabulous and well selling bandage convinced the company to invest in the creation of new kinds of variations on the theme that quickly begin to appear on the market. The “Zo” adhesive plaster was one of them: coming directly from a high lineage of bandages dated back to the beginning of XX siècle, was promptly transformed according to the new band aid and became the reel plaster that who was an “always on the floor” children surely remembers. Here it is the photo of the reel:
It measures 5,4 cm (2,15 inches) of diameter x 3,4 cm (1,26 inches) of high and contained 4,57 meters of plaster, which are 5 yards in the Anglo – Saxon metric system.  Approximately it could be dated around the Fifties. This reel was an exclusive for the UK market and was made by Johnson & Johnson LTD based in Slough, near London. Thanks for reading my post! English is not my mother language, so if you find grammatical errors, typos or other incorrect things please leave me a comment: I will change them as soon as I can. Bye!