I was kind of surprised that preppers buy tampons and maxi-pads for first aid situations, apparently great for small wounds. https://twitter.com/TalkingArrow/status/907293899143737344 …
Wrong link, sorry; it's 4am and I'm tired. Nurses first started using them in WWI: http://online.wsj.com/ww1/sanitary-products …
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ah... still, this is an innovation in pads. Modern tampons started later, in peacetime.
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It's the same material. It started out as a wound dressing, nurses used it for hygiene, and it was then commercialised.
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