[maine-iac7]

Lamp oil being a pH germ killer was used in ancient times without knowing it killed germs because they didn’t know germs existed. Wounds healed and people lived when they used the lamp oil

Would that be 'current' lamp oil or when lamp oil = whale, dog fish, olive oil?

I know part of the Roman Soldier's 'rations' was garlic - used for energy but also for medicine, the same as it was in WWll - pass the crushed garlic over a wound and the oily vapor would kill even gangrene -

A Roman soldier caught without his garlic was disciplined

[MHGinTN]

Olive oil ... you can even make a battery with olive oil because of the pH.