PoP wrote:

On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 00:43:28 +0100, Andy Dingley
wrote:


OK, so I regularly do this before slicing my flesh open with some
mis-placed wood-slicing implement. But it hurts like a ******* - the
pyridine. If you're planning to sterilise some skin, use surgical
spirit (which doesn't have half the crap in it).


I might be wrong about this, but I understood that in a war situation
urine might be used as a sterilising solution by soldiers in the
field. I can't think of a solution that might have more crap in it!


It was highly efective against Chlorine gas.

And, actually, its full of nutrient, but relatively sterile when passed
- if that is all teh water you have, its a heap better than nothing.



PoP