Apparently a 1938 issue of Popular Science included an article on a new procedure that Brooklyn nurses had been using to help preventing new-born mix-ups, branding the babies' skin with their initials using a 'hand-type ultraviolet-ray lamp.'
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Were baby mix ups that big of a problem in 1938? Or was that before they invented writs bands?
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- joshuaheller
- 5 months ago
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i mean how hard is it to keep track of a baby?
were they playing musical beds or something? -
Hello Skin Cancer!
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Tattoos are so cool!
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- bansheewail
- 5 months ago
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Yea, the little tikes really enjoyed that little device burning their initials into their ass.
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Damn! Why is it that the nurses outfits are always so sexy!!! Rarrrrr! Now days after giving birth you wouldnt catch a mom taking a picture in a robe either. Gotta look like your fresh as ever!
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What happened if two babies had the same initials?
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I guess a bracelet would have been too obvious.
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- damnneargenius
- 5 months ago
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babies switched at birth is still a huge problem. you can look it up, im too lazy to right now but i think a few years ago it was something like 6 babies a day. still....they didnt really know about uv causing caqncer then so.
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- SilenceNoMore
- 5 months ago
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Oh, now I know where those three sixes came from!
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- rightbrain
- 5 months ago
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I just love the picture. Why does the mother look like she is in love with the nurse who is branding her baby like cattle with a very determined stare?
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- JanaPokana
- 5 months ago
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is there any info on what happened to that baby in the photo?
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- renagadeoffunk74
- 5 months ago
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I say tag them like a dead body. How hard is that?
