Chapter 490: The Portrait of the Emperor and Empress, Forever Immortalized

For Murong Jiu, the biggest surprise of the day was that just before Wang Yingluo was about to leave, she suddenly remembered that high-proof alcohol can sterilize and kill germs, greatly reducing the risk of wound infection.

The phrase "sterilize and kill germs" seems to be from a later era, but it was understandable.

The method of using strong alcohol to disinfect had existed for a long time, but due to the concentration of the alcohol, the effect was naturally not very good. More often, they used strong heat to sterilize tools such as knives and silver needles.

What Wang Yingluo meant was that using high-proof alcohol would kill many invisible viruses and bacteria.

Viruses were easy to understand, but bacteria were something Murong Jiu was hearing about for the first time. In any case, these were the culprits causing wound infections.