3 ms·
Alcohols intoxicating effects were almost certainly discovered before its usefulness as a disinfectant.
by wcummings 9y ago
Alcohols intoxicating effects were almost certainly discovered before its usefulness as a disinfectant.
- PhasmaFelis 9y agoSure, but you don't need to know about disinfectant to notice that people who drink the water from the stream get sick and people who drink beer don't. (Nor need to realize that it's because the people and animals upstream are shitting in it. Not a big problem for hunter-gatherers, but it would have become an issue once large-scale agriculture became a thing.)