I was re-reading a portion of Jack London's, "Voyage of the Snark", last night. Here is the entire book on line, it is great reading!
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Especially the portion describing the various illnesses and afflictions and some thing called "Yaws".
YIKES!!11!
Ah, well. I have to be obsessing about something, right?
I wonder if Corrosive Sublimate is still available as a treatment for sores.
Ahh, it seems about forty years ago, we called a related solution to corrosive sublimate; Mercurochrome. That substance was possibly Corrosive Sublimate after watering it down with either a alcohol solution or water. I bet a couple tubes of of the current antibacterial ointments will perform the task more readily.
Good thing I have some of Neosporin in my soon to be packed pile of stuff.
2 comments:
Mercurochrome ... I haven't heard that word since I was a child! What happened to that stuff? Anyway... the shots may hurt, but what's a little pain for a lot of upcoming pleasure!
Ken n Cheryl said; "What happened to that stuff?"
Apparently Mercurochrome is uber-poisonous, especially if taken in large quantities.
That was considered a feature back in the days before antibiotics. It's ok as a topical on scrapes and small cuts, at least when I was a kid.
By the way; The Yellow Fever shot had a goooood buuuurrrrrnnn to it. Glad it is over with.
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