[Who dat?]

I know it’s off-subject, but regarding Prussian Blue: Is that the same purple colored crap we used to use on horses to prevent/treat infection?

[There were also recipes in the ‘70’s that used it as a coloring agent in making salt/sugar crystals.]

I remember it as being (something) Blue - "Prussian" sounds right. It used to be used as an antibiotic sort of thing. It came in a small bottle; in liquid form. It’d stain your fingers purple for a week or more.

Our horses would scrape their leg on the fence and we’d have to drain the infected wound, give an antibiotic shot and dress the wound with the purple liquid. I thought it was Prussian Blue. I could be wrong…

I know it’s a dumb question, I'm just trying to figure out if it's the same stuff I saw as a kid... it's interesting to see the various uses of different things.

[mommadooo3]

The stuff you're thinking about is called Blu-Kote...and the purple color comes from 'gentian violet'. It's also been used , in a milder form, for babies who develop 'thrush' in their mouths.

BTW...Blu-Kote is reported to be one of the few OTC items that will 'kill off' tetnus 'germies'.