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THE impression that tannic acid is a safe and reliable dressing for burns is nowadays so widespread that there will be much interest in recent experimental evidence suggesting that tannic acid should be abandoned because of the risk of the damage to the liver which it may cause.
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Tannic Acid and Burns. Nature 153, 583–584 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/153583c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/153583c0