To: Clutch Martin
The use of mineral oil got its start back in the patent medicine days of our country. Along with petroleum jelly I wouldn’t recommend it for use on human skin and definitely not internally.Granddad used to drink it out of the bottle for constipation. Ew. Died of cancer.
67 posted on
08/23/2017 9:56:59 AM PDT by
Albion Wilde
(I was not elected to continue a failed system. I was elected to change it. --Donald J. Trump)
To: Albion Wilde
It is still used for horses to help with colicky bowels. Horses can’t vomit so when they get stopped up it is serious matter.
69 posted on
08/23/2017 10:49:52 AM PDT by
Clutch Martin
(Hot sauce aside, every culture has its pancake, just as every culture has its noodle.)
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