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Define "safe".
"Methylated spirits" is an archaic term for what's usually and more properly referred to as "denatured alcohol". Denatured alcohol is ethanol that has been rendered undrinkable (and usually poisonous, by which I mean "even more poisonous than ethanol", since ethanol itself is somewhat toxic) by the addition of toxic or noxious compounds. Traditionally the toxic compound of choice was methanol, which is significantly more toxic than ethanol itself.
So, to recap: you've got a substance that is itself toxic, and which has been made even more toxic by the addition of other compounds. And your question is whether or not it's safe to pour this into an open wound.
(That said: not all denaturing formulas use compounds that are actually poisonous; some of them just use compounds that taste really bad. Also, you're not hooking up an IV bag and pouring in a couple liters, you're pouring a small amount over the wound. If methylated spirits were the only thing I had and the choice was between that or not cleaning the wound at all, then using the methylated spirits is probably the safer of the two choices.)
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