If alcohol is so effective at killing bacteria/viruses, why isn’t it used more often in medication?

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The thing is that alcohol is effective at killing bacteria/viruses the same way it’s effective at killing everything else: at a high enough concentration, it essentially destroys all cells (and/or viruses) that it comes in contact with.

We could absolutely use alcohol to kill an infection, but it would require a dose that would also most certainly kill the patient.