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To: Rambi who wrote (66100)	12/6/2004 10:13:23 AM
From: Crocodile	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

It could really be either, I suppose. I'd almost tend to think that if the second site developed after she had had some antibiotics, then they were working at least to some degree, and "isolating" a second site of infection. That's partly how antibiotics tend to work on skin infections -- they help to isolate the infection and force it to the surface. Now, if my grandmother or even my old family doctor were around, she or he would say to soak cloth (or paper towels) in very warm water with as much epsom salts dissolved into it as it would take, then soak the infection site for about 20 minutes a few times a day. I do this all of the time now for more serious cuts and scrapes (as you might guess, I get quite a few while doing river and forest survey work), and I haven't had any give me trouble in years (knock on wood). Anyhow, that was the "old way" of treating skin infections or wounds that had gone kind of bad.