Supplies of Canadian moss found in peat bogs represent a valuable reserve in the mighty medical chest of the Allies, to be drawn upon for the healing of wounded men when other supplies run short. “If cotton 1 * or supplies of other absorbent materials run short we anticipate that sphagnum, which gave such good service in the last war, will be used again,” a medical authority stated recently. In the First Great War spagnum moss was placed within bandage cloth and employed to replace absorbent cotton. It was found to be of special value because of its antiseptic qualities.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 December 1941, Page 2
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