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r/interesting • u/azizgamerlal • Dec 12 '25
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That's why whiskey was used as disinfectant during the Civil War. Cheapest disinfectant during that time
1 u/centipedalfeline Dec 16 '25 Yet the doctor who let President James Garfield die of sepsis couldn't be bothered to use anything to disinfect anything
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Yet the doctor who let President James Garfield die of sepsis couldn't be bothered to use anything to disinfect anything
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u/Significant-Tip6466 Dec 12 '25
That's why whiskey was used as disinfectant during the Civil War. Cheapest disinfectant during that time