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From: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley Friesen)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: whats going on in these silly hospitals?
Message-ID: <378@psivax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 29-Mar-85 12:45:45 EST
Article-I.D.: psivax.378
Posted: Fri Mar 29 12:45:45 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 31-Mar-85 03:45:17 EST
References: <181@ur-cvsvax.UUCP> <196@osiris.UUCP>
Reply-To: friesen@psivax.UUCP (Stanley friesen)
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In article <196@osiris.UUCP> jcp@osiris.UUCP (Jody Patilla) writes:
>
>	Just a note here - oil of wintergreen (methyl salicilate) is not
>actually an air freshener (though it smells good). It is usually used as
>a muscle rub much the way that commercial preparations like BenGay and
>Mentholatum are. It creates heat on your skin by producing a counter-irritant
>effect.

	A small additional note: most of these OTC heating rubs,
like BenGay, actually *contain* oil of wintergreen as the active ingredient.
-- 

				Sarima (Stanley Friesen)

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