Marty, I would rather have the key to Shania Twain's lips! - Raincity, I should clarify that Dr. Jacobs was the first to develope refined versions intended for medical use. An early version was first discovered for putting into water to make it penetrate wood better (it is very water soluable Wit). It was used for awhile to fight forestfires and housefires. I think it was because of risk to firemen of getting bad various fumes with DMSO mist on them that discontinued it's use for that. Not sure of that though. I recall first seeing the early versions work on a school field trip when a forester put regular water on a raw piece of wood and then water with a precursor of DMSO in it on the same piece of wood. He first put on the reg water and it sat there beaded up on the wood surface. Then he put the treated water on and it magically disappeared right down into the wood, only leaving a damp spot while the reg water still stood on the surface. When Dr. Jocabs learned of this amazing penetration property he was all over it to study it's ability to penetrate skin with medicines. - There is a lot of different good "medicine" to penetrate into egg sacks! Needs a lot of experimenting time. If no adversity occured with so many NW athletes putting it on cleaned skin over the years Marty, there should be little concern using it with rubber or vinyl gloves on. And try using it from a spray bottle. - RT



[This message has been edited by Reel Truth (edited 10-05-2000).]