Katherine Griffis-Greenberg Wrote:
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I can contribute here. Guido Majno investigated this approach in his book The Healing hand and found that it was an effective antibiotic in killing bacteria. I and a Judy Davidson looked at killing bacteria with agave sap (operating under a similar principle of osmotic pressure) and found it to be effective also. We published a paper on it. In Argentina surgeons used granulated sugar on infected wounds and post-op infections (same principle) and found it to be effective 99% of the time.

Bernard
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> If we can take the pSmith treatment of open wounds
> as an indicator, the Egyptian doctors would have
> probably cleaned the wound and then treated the
> area with honey and hoped for the best that the
> wound would heal. Vigl and his team, however,
> found fabric embedded in the wound (which had a
> gold thread design)*: as such, dirt and foreign
> materials were embedded into the wound from the
> outset and no amount of surface cleaning could
> stop an infection once deeply embedded.
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