Medicinal brandy. It serves multipurposes as a topical disinfectant on wounds and a painkiller when applied internally. Medicinal brandy helps in warming up a chilled person (You don't really believe that nonsense about alcohol not being good for helping a cold person feel warmer. Afterall, who is more trustworthy: a doctor or a St. Bernard? :-)). Also it has been proven over the centuries as an excellent remedy during later stages of recuperation from injury or illness. Medicinal brandy and other such distillants have only one limitation for a common boating calamity: it doesn't work for severe sunburns. Well, not directly, about 35 years ago, my wife and I were in Acapulco when she contacted the worse sunburn I ever saw. I tried putting butter on her but it curdled!!! She was miserable and could not lie down to sleep. Finally I got some Mexican wine (in those days Mexican wine was absolutely horrible; it has improved somewhat since then) and had her drink away. She slept like a baby. ralph diaz -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ralph Diaz . . . Folding Kayaker newsletter PO Box 0754, New York, NY 10024 Tel: 212-724-5069; E-mail: rdiaz_at_ix.netcom.com "Where's your sea kayak?"----"It's in the bag." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Mon Aug 23 1999 - 11:04:12 PDT
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