"I wouldn't think it's good to submerge an open wound in it"
Interestingly enough, I've heard that people have done exactly that with it, as a primitive-conditions way of protecting a wound from infection. (When I heard about it, it was unclear whether this was an "emergency, caught short, what do we have on hand?" thing (the same conditions under which one might wash a wound with urine (I imagine that stings) due to a lack of clean water), or a "modern antibiotics haven't been invented yet" thing. ISTR soldiers being involved. And I guess it'd probably be sometime after folks figured out germs cause infections.
I know that stuff already. But we live in one of the most ersatz civilized places on earth and have access to antibiotics and neosporin. I think of honey as something to be used under duress.
What is ISTR? I wish people would quit abbreviating so much. Just a general gripe.
Hmm. Must remember to visit the "which netspeak abbreviations do I use when, and why" thing after the pattern-matching analysis that just started in the back of my head resolves a bit.
(Urk. Having serious problems with the "stay asleep long enough for it to do any good" thing.)
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Interestingly enough, I've heard that people have done exactly that with it, as a primitive-conditions way of protecting a wound from infection. (When I heard about it, it was unclear whether this was an "emergency, caught short, what do we have on hand?" thing (the same conditions under which one might wash a wound with urine (I imagine that stings) due to a lack of clean water), or a "modern antibiotics haven't been invented yet" thing. ISTR soldiers being involved. And I guess it'd probably be sometime after folks figured out germs cause infections.
honey
What is ISTR? I wish people would quit abbreviating so much. Just a general gripe.
Re: honey
Hmm. Must remember to visit the "which netspeak abbreviations do I use when, and why" thing after the pattern-matching analysis that just started in the back of my head resolves a bit.
(Urk. Having serious problems with the "stay asleep long enough for it to do any good" thing.)