
Hand Sanitizer
Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine
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Alcohol Burns When You Drink It
In the late 1800s, doctor leonid bukol discovered that a form of alcohol, specifically ethanal, was a useful antiseptic. It killed stuff. We don't quite know what to do without formation yet. And so when we figured out alcohol ethana could kill some micro organisms, we decided like, well, then it must kill all of them. But they's actually set it back for a while because theyv found that it wasn't very good for fungus. So there as this tot like,Well, it's not if it can't even kill fungus? Why that me? Like, why are we continuing to investigate it as this possible antiseptic
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