Abstract:
Surgical Bandage is the products manufactured from white bleached cotton gauge cloth of
suitable quality. Absorbent cotton also known as surgical cotton is used mainly for medical
purposes. Raw cotton is purified by a series of processed and rendered hydrophile in
character besides rendering it free from other external organic impurities. Purified cotton is
made from superior grade cotton fibers. It is bleached to pure white colour, softened and
freed from pieces of thread, leaf, shell, fiber, dust and other organic matters. The absorbent
cotton when impregnated with capscuium celnrsin and methyl salicylate gives capscuium
cotton/wool which can be used as counter irritant and in the treatment of rheumatic producing
heat on undamaged skin.
