 that you could wrap it around your finger rather than a Band-Aid, and I did it many times. I always had a brown paper bag around, and if I cut my finger, I would rip off a piece of paper and wrap it around the finger, and it would heal right up very well. They said there was some chemical in paper, in brown paper bags that did that. Now, I've noticed the last 20 or 30 years, brown paper bags are very stiff.