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nature 147, 21-21 (04 January 1941) | doi:10.1038/147021a0
Moss in War-time Medical Dressings
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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.
