Re: [bolger] Digest Number 2715

Potassium permanganate will also very effectively oxidize the lignin binding
the cellulose bundles in your wood. No kidding. It is the reagent for
detecting the amount of lignin left in wood after chemical pulping.


----- Original Message -----
From: <catboat15@...>
To: <bolger@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2005 7:10 PM
Subject: Re: [bolger] Digest Number 2715


|
| In a message dated 11/29/2005 5:45:25 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
|bolger@yahoogroups.comwrites:
|
| Potassium permananate will stop rot, fungus and almost anything else
|
|
|
| Back when Hector was a pup and I was a kid there was an annual epidemic of
| some skin disease we called Infatantago. The treatment was application of
| permanganate to the area so half the kids in school had those purple
blotches on
| their skin. Several years ago my wife had a resistant ear infection that
did
| not respond to all the newer "wonder drugs" and finally her doctor told
her
| to get the potassium permaganate and use on her ear, ugly, but cleared up
the
| infection quickly. You can still find it in large drug stores, along with
| small bottles of iodine which no one uses now either.
|
| John Meacham
| High desert of California
| Bolger Cartopper.
|
|
|
| [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
|
|
|
|
| Bolger rules!!!
| - no cursing, flaming, trolling, spamming, respamming, or flogging dead
horses
| - stay on topic, stay on thread, punctuate, no 'Ed, thanks, Fred' posts
| - Pls add your comments at the TOP, SIGN your posts, and snip away
| - Plans: Mr. Philip C. Bolger, P.O. Box 1209, Gloucester, MA, 01930, Fax:
(978) 282-1349
| - Unsubscribe:bolger-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com
| - Open discussion:bolger_coffee_lounge-subscribe@yahoogroups.com
| Yahoo! Groups Links
|
|
|
|
|
|
In a message dated 11/29/2005 5:45:25 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
bolger@yahoogroups.comwrites:

Potassium permananate will stop rot, fungus and almost anything else



Back when Hector was a pup and I was a kid there was an annual epidemic of
some skin disease we called Infatantago. The treatment was application of
permanganate to the area so half the kids in school had those purple blotches on
their skin. Several years ago my wife had a resistant ear infection that did
not respond to all the newer "wonder drugs" and finally her doctor told her
to get the potassium permaganate and use on her ear, ugly, but cleared up the
infection quickly. You can still find it in large drug stores, along with
small bottles of iodine which no one uses now either.

John Meacham
High desert of California
Bolger Cartopper.



[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]