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Wasn't oil used medicinally for a while after its discovery? Not ingested, but rubbed on your skin to ease joint pain?
by sleepydog 7y ago
Wasn't oil used medicinally for a while after its discovery? Not ingested, but rubbed on your skin to ease joint pain?
- sandworm101 7y agoMore than for "a while". Oil was discovered hundreds, thousands, of years ago. It used to seep out of the ground in many places (See the opening sequence of The Beverly Hillbillies). Only once we started pumping it did all the surface seeps dry up.
- SEJeff 7y agoFun fact, it still does, in 2019, seep out of the ground in downtown Los Angeles. Literally on the miracle mile sits the La brea Tarpits. You can see the pond with oil bubbling out of the water. If you're ever in Los Angeles, it is a very memorable thing to visit. https://tarpits.org/ https://tarpits.org/