Re: Washing hands?
@swapdog "Do you happen to know if that (old) story about alcoholics nicking the handwash had any truth?"
This is true, in that, it does happen, even before the invention of mouthwash made it "convenient".
A visit to the Darwin centre in London (an Annex of the Natural History Museum) a few years back, the "Back stage tour" showed a large amount of the material not for show - e.g. A giant squid (!), a Coelacanth and some of Darwin's original materials he had taken on the Beagle.
There were a number of specimens that were sent to the museum for safekeeping from Russia after the revolution in 1917. They were degrading because the Russian troops were starved of alcohol, and drinking the preservative (not all EtOH, some of it MetOH!, refilling with water...),
There were some *very* mangy samples....!
For some, the compulsion to drink, is truely overwhelming...
P.