SC - ot-medieval toasts

[Philip & Susan Troy]

At 5:47 PM -0500 3/16/99, snowfire at mail.snet.net wrote:
>-Poster: Jean Holtom <Snowfire at mail.snet.net>
>
>Paraffin is the same as kerosene. Smelly liquid type stuff. I've also seen
>Paraffin Gauze used as a dressing.  It's a gauze pad with yellow gooey
>stuff like
>smelly vaseline soaked through it.  I've heard of paraffin wax, but don't
>know
>what that is.... It's not the stuff they use at Madame Toussaud's is it ;-)

"Paraffin" in Britain means kerosene. In the U.S. it means a synthetic
substitue for beeswax, developed (I think) in the 19th century. Entirely
different things, although both ultimately made out of petroleum (I think).

David/Cariadoc
http://www.best.com/~ddfr/


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