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The use of honey as a wound-healing and antiseptic agent has been recorded since ancient times. Stomfay Stitz (1960) has reviewed this subject in his interesting article, “Honey: An Ancient Yet Modern Medicine.” Examples of this use of honey can be found in the modern literature (Bulman, 1955; Seymour and West, 1951). The presence in honey of an antibacterial activity was first shown by Dold, Du and Dziao (1937) about 25 years ago.
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