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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Boracic Lint is a now old fashioned wound dressing. It is a pad of pink material placed on the wound before a bandage applied. The lint does not shred into fibres so can be removed later easily without bits sticking to the wound. It is impregnated with a compound of boric acid, a mild disinfectant, to prevent infection of the wound. The name is derived from Borax (disodium tetraborate B4 H20 Na2 O17) that is easily converted to boric acid.
The origin of the name is traceable to the Persian word b�rah