If you're going to be throwing away a bunch of pus covered lancets, shouldn't you have one of those red plastic biohazard sharps containers?

Question, how do you describe a wound full of pus? Many a medical student has written in the chart, "on the patient's leg was a pussy wound."

From the American Civil war, and before, bullet wounds to the extremities were treated with amputation. The goal was to create a "clean" wound that didn't contain pieces of dirt and fabric, which almost always led to suppuration and gangrene. Prior to the days of anesthesia, the unfortunates were given laudanum, a mixture of alcohol and opium. Still, Paracelsus described an essential characteristic of an 18th century surgeon as "absolute pitilessness"

Those were rough days. The smell of suppuration has not been abolished, unfortunately. Anaerobic bacteria will singe your nose hair. The modern remedy is a dash of peppermint oil on the surgical mask. It's remarkably potent and an overdose will cause your eyes to water for the next 10 minutes.

Fun fact: "[Listerine was] [f]irst formulated by Dr. Joseph Lawrence and Jordan Wheat Lambert[2] in 1879 as a surgical antiseptic, it was given to dentists for oral care in 1895 and it was the first over-the-counter mouthwash sold in the United States in 1914. The mouthwash was named in honor of Dr. Joseph Lister, a pioneer of antiseptic surgery."

And he got to drain pus from TWO *British monarchs! Lucky devil!

Seriously, it's a *long story, but well worth the watch. Great find, Serious Surgeon.

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I like to think that if we can hold youtubesque comments to a single thread, then we are containing the virulent pus in a boil that needs only to be lanced every once in a while.

wieners.

Model A Ford and a tank full of gas,
Mouth full of pus...

yeah, let's never mind that one. But I do have some dirty ones...

They always want you to eat it as part of a "balanced meal."

Toast (refined white bread), butter (grease), orange juice (mostly high-fructose corn syrup), and milk (cow pus).

I used to love it, too....

Lowest common denominator-How bout a special channel for crap like this.....the vomit channel
the fart in public channel
the red stain on women's blouses channel
the drink your own urine channel
the swallow your own booger channel
the take you own feces from the toilet and photograph it channel

shall I go on???

the squeeze pus from a bot fly larvae's home in the head of your penis channel
the bile in a glass channel
ohhh, contents of a babies diaper channel, now there's some dinner conversation for ya.......

Hope this gets down voted into oblivion....but don't expect as much....

1. Strive for balance in all things.
2. Never attempt to perform difficult medical procedures without appropriate training.
3. Never let your arms grow bigger than your head (literally and figuratively.)

Follow these three simple steps, kids, and YOU too can avoid having your arm explode in a shower of pus, blood, and necrotic tissue.