Surgery

Coating gelatine

Armee-Material, um 1943

In order to bring the instruments needed on the Western Front as cheaply as possible, and as little as possible scratched to Europe, the Ami's welded the instruments into a paraffin mass. If the instruments were placed in hot water, then the "coating" dissolved, the instruments were available within a very short time and in perfect condition.

After the invasion of Luxembourg, the American troops left a portion of their funds back in Luxembourg, where it was mothballed by the Luxembourg army - and scrapped in 1950.
The instruments presented here - a scalpel, three different clamps - were rescued from this mass (Fundus Hary).