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Letter: Letter

Published 30 June 2001

From Edward Teague

Bandages incorporating sphagnum moss were applied to open wounds in the First
World War by the British Army to prevent bacterial infection.

Perhaps we could reintroduce the moss to help save the hundred or so who die
every week in Britain from hospital-acquired infections?

Rochdale

Issue no. 2296 published 23 June 2001

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