" They’ve become war surplus; I’m told you can buy them at any of these markets that have sprung up. The one in Ash’s room had been torn open and there was a dressing missing.’ ‘A dressing?’ ‘A bandage and so forth. They found the empty packet it had been in. I wondered if he’d been injured. "

― Rennie Airth , The Dead of Winter (John Madden, #3)