they were designed from the start as hygiene products, but Tampax did convert to making dressings during WW2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tampon#History …
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Replying to @Chirurgic @GailSimone
Yeah, but the guy who designed them got the idea from bullet dressings, which a female friend mentioned to him.https://www.thoughtco.com/history-of-the-tampon-4018968 …
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Replying to @fozmeadows @GailSimone
the article refers to a sponge, not a bullet dressing...
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Replying to @Chirurgic @GailSimone
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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Replying to @fozmeadows @GailSimone
ah... still, this is an innovation in pads. Modern tampons started later, in peacetime.
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Replying to @Chirurgic @GailSimone
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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Replying to @fozmeadows @GailSimone
but tampons were never intended for packing bullet wounds, is the main point, https://www.personaldefensenetwork.com/article/severe-bleeding-first-aid-misconceptions-tampons/ …
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Replying to @Chirurgic @GailSimone
And yet they are used for it, just as pads are used. Hence Gail's original tweet.
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Sanitary products in the modern era started with materials that started out on the battlefield. End of.
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Jack Newhouse Retweeted Foz Meadows
that's not the same claim you started with, though, hence my objectionshttps://twitter.com/fozmeadows/status/907301447657709568 …
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twitter has limited characters. The salient point of interest is women taking material used to plug bullet-wounds for sanitary products.
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