On Sun, 02 Oct 2005 20:03:44 GMT, John Barnard wrote:



wrote:

All of the stores health and medical isles have it on the shelves.It is
Rubbing Alcohol = Wood Alcohol.Not for internal use!
cuhulin

Actually, wood alcohol is methanol and not rubbing alcohol (isopropanol).
Anyone ingesting wood alcohol is given ethanol to prevent further
conversion of the methanol to formaldehyde. Formaldehyde reacts quite
nicely with proteins and is very good at causing blindness. Isopropanol
would be converted to acetone and is readily eliminated from the lungs and
by the kidneys.

JB

Which is why it's denatured, so it's dangerous to drink
anyway.