Spanish American War Abominable Bandage or Cholera Belt

Spanish American War Abominable Bandage or Cholera Belt. This is a second one I picked up just before acquiring the first one listed on the site now. This one has the same configuration, and in the same gray wool. This bandage has small moth holes over the surface, but very small ones. Still, once folded, or displayed on mannequin, it looks fine.

Made of gray worsted wool, these light weight bandages were issued to troops in the late 19th-early 20 centuries. It was believed by those in medicine that wearing this around the waist during the chilling of the abdomen, particularly at night to ward off violent bowel issues like dysentery, malaria, and other such diseases common to Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippine Islands, etc. Consists of the wool, 4 tying straps and the original safety pin.

Though much debate about these bandages having any effect in that period, a good number of the troops still continued to wear them.

Very good