Willard water was developed in the early twentieth century at the South Dakota School of Mines by a chemistry professor named John Wesley Willard, Ph.D.
Did they even have plastic bottles back then? They really didn't know much about how plastics will break down whenever they started using plastic to store it in.
I had one cat that had a busted and infected foot and the only thing I used was some herbs and some Willard Water and that rascal healed and shouldn’t have, you know, without surgery or anything because the bone was infected from an old trap wound.
Using herbs as a poultice for wounds has been common in the past, and is regaining popularity. I think it might be the external use that was the biggest helper, since they don't know.
Willard water is chemically processed water containing ingredients such as rock salt, calcium chloride, and magnesium sulfate.
I think so because using it externally might be the same as what they had me do with Vlad when he got that really bad hotspot on his paw before. Wet bandaging.
Place gauze on top of the wound, then soak it down with saline. Then wrap it up & change in 48 hours. Willard water has rock salt in it. Would correlate w/saline. I know for sure that Vlad's paw healed magically doing that along with the antibiotics.
Calcium Chloride is basically one of the salts which is why it makes a good deicer, but it's also used with treating magnesium sulfate overdose.
https://www.drugs.com/pro/calcium-chloride.htmlMagnesium sulfate, can have some of the same effects as Milk of Magnesia (magnesium hydroxide) if too much ingested or given.
See Minor side-effects:
https://www.drugs.com/sfx/magnesium-sulfate-side-effects.htmlSO, not sure what to tell you. I just know that I'm afraid of what else might be in it after being stored in plastic if it's been long enough to break it down. Weakening glass sounds scary.