White petroleum/Vaseline is so funny because it genuinely has a lot of great medical uses but we only learned this because the guy who invented/popularized it took a fucking shotgun approved to bring a snake oil salesman and claimed it could do frickin everything and he just happened by chance to be right about a couple of them
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The part I love is that he seemed to totally believe it all too. Either that or he had a fetish. Had to get a nurse to cover him head to toe in Vaseline because of some lung issues.