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Show Dressings for Soldiers' Wounds. Tho demand for dressing materials that Is, materials for dressing wounds is reported as immonso In Europe and Krccko, a German military surgeon sur-geon Is quoted by tho Medical Record as prophesying that In this war tho Incapacitated will reach 50 per cent ot tho actual combatants. Economics aro being practiced in dressing tho wounds of soldiers, small wounds being be-ing fixed up with a littlo mull and a patch of adhesive plaster Instead of a wad ot cotton and long strips of bandage. Padding material Is being used by tno surgeons gcnornlly only for fractures Holler bandages aro I Doing uied as soldom and as sparingly as possible Plaster ot parts dressings Tor gunshot rractures aro bolng used as ono of the economies lu tho military hospitals. |