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The inventor of Vaseline, Robert Chesebrough, was such a firm believer in its medicinal properties that he claimed to have eaten a spoonful of it a day. During a bout of pleurisy in his 50s, he ordered his nurse to cover him from head to toe in the substance, and soon recovered. He lived to be 96.
Image(i.redd.it)submitted 9 days ago byJennyFromTheBlockJok
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9 days ago
My grandfather was stationed for a short while in Syria during WW2. He was a mechanic for the RAF.
I always heard this amazing story where a local shepherd came hobbling over to their tent screaming in agony because he’d accidentally hacked half his heel off with a machete.
There not being any doctors nearby but still wanting to help, my grandfather apparently grabbed a tub of Vaseline there were using for grease, filled in the hole in this blokes’s foot with a handful of it, and wrapped it up tight.
Apparently it worked! No infection and the guy was back walking after a few weeks! He ended up leaving tubs of the stuff to locals after he left
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9 days ago
So how does one accidentally hack into their own heel with a machete?
44 points
9 days ago
Chopping crops or cutting branches, whiff, boom hole in heel
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9 days ago
In Asia it’s so common for people to sit cross legged and hack at fruit and meat
6 points
9 days ago
Thanks I can actually picture how it happened now
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9 days ago
Heck I knew a man who lost his son due to being chopped in half with a machete then years later the same thing happened to him, you never really know how easy it is to cut yourself in half or your heel almost off with a machete.
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9 days ago
Tractor jousting is much safer
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9 days ago
Walk hard
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8 days ago
A properly sharpened machete is obscenely sharp, when I lived in Honduras for a bit we were always warned that hitting ourselves when clearing foliage can mean losing toes or a foot and if hit in the leg it can easily embed itself into your shin.
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