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THE position in the War of 1914-18, when the acute shortage of cotton-wool necessitated the widespread use of Sphagnum moss as an absorbent dressing for field wounds, has been anticipated in the present efforts to recommend reserves of this material properly collected and suitably prepared (Lancet, Dec. 14, p. 753). During 1914-18, when the War Office officially sanctioned the use of bog-moss and itself ordered considerable supplies from Dublin and Edinburgh War Dressings Supply Centres, Colonel C. W. Cathcart, of the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, investigated its properties in comparison with other cheap and easily available absorbants and deodorants like pinewood sawdust and peat moss litter and showed its considerable advantage, even over ordinary cotton-wool (Brit. Med. J., July 24, 1915).
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Moss in War-time Medical Dressings. Nature 147, 21 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147021a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/147021a0