I would guess that alcohol was NOT used.  Gage's accident happened in 1848.
Lister didn't introduce the concept of hand and wound asepsis until 1865,
and at that time carbolic acid was used for "antisepsis."

Beth Benoit
University System of New Hampshire 

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