Star Trek TOS Wound Spray Applicator

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The spray applicator was a medical device standard in portable medkits, the 23rd century equivalent of the `little black bag’, in use from the 2260s to 2270s. It is usually accompanied by a small Type-1 Medical Scanner (Nicknamed `Salt-Shaker’ due to its shape), a standard hypospray with an extra dosage vial, and a Feinberger-Class Field Reader Tube, a small medical close-range instrument set with four colored indicators, each denoting a patient’s condition. The Spray Applicator is a small, 2-piece cylindrical metal dispenser of epidermal medications. Although it is capable of dispensing a variety of liquids, foams, and gels for field use. The swappable, grooved textured vial at the end of the applicator is has a mesh dispenser at its end, and is normally pressurized with an organically-based flesh-colored compound; Plasti-Skin (AKA Pseudoskin), a suspension of a coagulant, numbing anesthetic, and antibiotic. The Plasti-Skin acts, in essence, as a liquid bandage and it also speeds up the healing proccess. Its consistency could be likened to a layer of liquid latex over the wound. Flexible but slightly tight, as bandages can be. The standard medkit applicator contains about 5-10 doses, depending on the amount used. One of these applicators was used in 2269 by Dr. McCoy when Ensign Chekov burned and blistered his hand after he touched a flower full of acidic sap on a poisonous planet in The Neutral Zone, a planet that the late Dr. Rota Sevrin and his followers believed to be `Eden’. (Star Trek TOS 'The Way To Eden') Note: The term `flesh-colored’ refers to Caucasian skin pigmentation. In the 2260s, a majority of the crew were light-skinned Caucasians, the normal color of the compound was a pale reddish-whitish off-pink color `Flesh’. For darker-skinned crew (African native, African American, Asian Indian, Native American Indian or even Klingon patients, if the need arose]), darker `Flesh’ tones were available, from shades ranging from dark brown, reddish-brown, dark to light mocha, dark to light tan. Since the Plasti-Skin rests atop the affected area, a clear Plasti-Skin would be transparent / translucent and allow others to see the wound. Darkening the fluid it with pigmentation, when it dries, it would act like a layer of makeup, disguising the wound. Additional: The larger spray is a reverse of the previous, as the prop was seen as having the grooved vial as its bottom and the button end as the sprayer. The wound spray with the darker gray striping is a alternate version for larger wound coverage, with a wider vent. Humorous uses: Spray applicators could also be used as quick-use hygiene products. Forget to apply deodorant before your away mission to Risa? Keep a spray vial of Axe and a vial of Binaca in your kit.