Talk:George J. Seabury

Invention of the Adhesive Bandage - Precursor to the Band-Aid Brand Bandage?
According to the article Band-Aid, which cites a Johnson & Johnson company website for its version, the Band-Aid brand adhesive bandange was an invention by a company employee (Earle Dickson) in 1920. Which the the historically accurate version? Geoff (talk) 17:50, 17 November 2008 (UTC)


 * According to this site Seabury went in partnership with Johnson to make and sell "Belson's Capcine Porous Plasters" which was the predecessor of the Band-Aid bandage. They go on to say in 1920 Earle Dickson came up with homemade bandage for his accident prone wife of a small wad of sterile cotton and gauze in the center of an adhesive strip. In this New York Times newspaper article they describe "like Robert Johnson and George Seabury, who invented the Band-Aid in 1870" probably meaning they developed "a medicated adhesive plaster" as a precursor to the Johnson & Johnson Band-aid.
 * According to this reference I am using it says "In 1874, Robert W. Johnson and George J. Seabury, working in East Orange, N.J., developed a medicated adhesive plaster with a rubber base."
 * According to this other reference I am using they are saying that "Robert Wood Johnson and George J. Seabury came up with an improvement in 1874" of Dr. John Maynard's idea of a medicated "plaster."
 * I believe what I am trying to say is that Seabury and Johnson's development was 'a step' towards the ultimate bandage called Band-Aid. Seabury and Johnson's development of a medicated bandage came with a rubber base. Dickson's medicated bandage came with an adhesive tape. Today's Band-Aid is a medicated bandage with an adhesive rubber/plastic tape. I believe Seabury and Johnson's development is a large version where Dickson's is a small version of basically the same thing - a medicated bandage with an adhesive. The actual brand name "Band-Aid" came in 1920. I think what all these sites are saying in that it was a progression of steps until it came to today's Band-Aid. Many parts of the world still call it today an 'adhesive plaster', 'sticking plaster' or simply 'plaster'.
 * I don't believe I am saying in the article that George J. Seabury invented the Band-Aid, just that he with Johnson "developed" a precursor.--Doug Coldwell talk 20:54, 17 November 2008 (UTC)

member of the "Old Guard" of New York City
"Old Guard"? Is that a regiment? Figure of speech? Something else? Jim.henderson (talk) 05:48, 30 January 2015 (UTC)

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