User:Kencharpie

"Charpie is a name given by the French and Germans to a collection of filaments separated from morsels of old linen rag 4 or 5 inches square and of loose texture which they use in lieu of lint and in preference to it A German doctor once told me that lint was only fit for compresses It is divided into two kinds charpie brute and the charpie rap e The first is what I have already described and is either coarse or fine according to the linen employed in its fabrication The rdpee is made by scraping fine linen rag or long charpie with the back of a knife It is more irritating than the first kind and absorbs the pus with greater promptitude" Handbook for hospital sisters, ed. by H.W. Acland By Florence S. Lees,  Florence Sarah Craven,  Henry Wentworth Acland