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Among the most popular bandaging materials, as far as 
using them for the above purposes is concerned, the following 
may suffice; the corresponding advantages of one or another 
material will be further explained at the close of this chapter: 
First—Wadding—The wadding (all fat removed) is most 
frequently used in the form of a simple fatless bandaging wad- 
ding for the padding of bandages, or impregnated as a 
4 to Io per cent. salicylic wadding, 3 to 10 per cent. ben- 
zoic wadding, 10 to 20 per cent. boracic acid wadding and 
thymol wadding, 10 to 20 per cent. iodoform wadding, 0.5 per 
cent. sublimate wadding, for the absorption and disinfection 
of the discharges. 
Second—Jute—The best fiber of corchorus capsularis has 
been lately introduced and is used the same as the wadding 
as a5 per cent benzoic jute, 5 to 10 per cent. carbolic jute, 5 to 
IO per cent. salicylic jute, and 0.5 per cent. sublimate. jute. 
Third—Wood wool wadding—The wood wool is manufact- 
ured by the grinding of soft woods; by working it together 
with fatless wadding, the so-called wood wool wadding is pro- 
duced. Both products are used as sublimate wood wool wad- 
ding (0.5 per cent), and creolin wood wool wadding. 
Fourth—Sawdust—is used frequently as a surrogate of 
wood wool and is mostly soaked in a 0.5 per cent. sublimate 
solution. 
Fifth—Hemp, flax, oakum—These materials are chiefly used 
in country practice. Lately the oakum, after being previously 
cleaned, has found some propagation as sublimate oakum. 
Sixth—Moss, mosspap—The moss, such as is used for ban- 
daging purposes, is made by the drying of the different sphag- 
num varieties, chiefly sphagnum cymbifolia and sphagnum 
cuspidata and is used now mostly in the form of the HAGE- 
DOMLEISERING mosspaps. To disinfect mosspaps 1 per 
cent. sublimate is used, in which the paps are dipped prior to 
using. 
Seventh—Peat—Recommended by NEUBER, is useful if 
impregnated as iodoform peat, carbolic peat and sublimate 
peat. 
