Vaseline petroleum which I have named Vaseline..." The name "vaseline" is said by the manufacturer to be derived from German "Wasser" "water" + Greek έλαιον ("elaion") "olive oil". In 1859, Chesebrough went to the oil fields in Titusville, Pennsylvania, and learned of a residue called "rod wax" that had to be periodically removed from oil rig pumps. The oil workers had been using the substance to heal cuts and burns. Chesebrough took samples of the rod wax back to Brooklyn, extracted the usable petroleum jelly, and began manufacturing the medicinal product he called Vaseline. Vaseline was made by the Chesebrough Manufacturing
Grass jelly which are "Platostoma palustre" ("Mesona chinensis", called "sương sáo" in Vietnamese) and "Tiliacora triandra" (called "sương sâm"; "sương sa" or "rau câu" is the name for jelly made from various kinds of algae). It is common now to eat green grass jelly (thạch lá găng) with douhua (tào phớ) and grass jelly (sương sáo or thạch đen) in the summer. Grass jelly Grass jelly, or leaf jelly, is a jelly-like dessert eaten in Malaysia, Indonesia, Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Southeast Asia, and Taiwan. It is made using the "Platostoma palustre" plant (a member of the mint family) and has