The use of medical mineral white oil in thermotherapy in Europe.
The use of medical mineral white oil in thermotherapy in Europe. The medicinal use of oil goes back centuries. In those areas where oil was poured onto the surface of the earth, the local population used it to treat the musculoskeletal system and skin diseases of humans and animals. There is a lot of evidence that the medicinal effect of oil has been known to many peoples from ancient times. The Egyptians, Assyrians and Babylonians used it to treat certain skin diseases and wounds. The first written...