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Letter: Letters: Useful peas

Published 9 November 1991

From ERIC PEARCEY

Feedback asks (28 September) who says there’s no good use for frozen
peas, having quoted an example of their use to solve a technological problem.

But has he not heard of their importance in the medical field? A pound
of them can make a most effective cold compress for an injured joint: at
first they are stiff and unyielding, but as they thaw a little, they mould
themselves beautifully to the shape of the afflicted portion of the anatomy.

Eric Pearcey Sutton, Surrey

Issue no. 1794 published 9 November 1991

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