From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lcrocker@mercury.colossus.net)
Date: Fri Sep 03 1999 - 17:31:01 MDT
> I had a friend whose theory was that you should get good and drunk
> whenever you have a cold. See, alcohol kills germs, right? So you
> need to raise the alcohol level in your blood to kill the germs.
I assume he's being facetious, but in case he's not you should
remind him that alcohol kills /any/ cell, including the immune
system cells needed to fight bugs. That's why you can sanitize
a surface or an instrument with alcohol, Listerine, or bleach,
but using any of those to treat infection doesn't work.
-- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lcrocker.html> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
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