Thousand-year-old Anglo-Saxon potion kills MRSA superbug

[porthos11]

cnn.com/2015/03/31/health/anglo-saxon-potion-mrsa/index.html

Only now are they finding out what Catholics have known: the Middle Ages were a far cry from being “Dark”.

 

[CaptFun]

cnn.com/2015/03/31/health/anglo-saxon-potion-mrsa/index.html

Only now are they finding out what Catholics have known: the Middle Ages were a far cry from being “Dark”.

Thanks for this. Two years too late for my Dad, though. MRSA got him in a hospital that decided to keep him overnight “for observation” after treating him in their ER for anemia.

On the bright side, he died with his children around him saying the rosary.

And before he went, he seemed to have heavenly visions … mimed drinking from a large invisible chalice before he left us. So … maybe that was his time.

Glad to hear of this, as it’s been a big problem in many hospitals. One they’ve had a hard time dealing with.

I’ll be on the lookout for a brass cup and some ox bile soon … just in case. I have the garlic, onions and wine already.

 

[ProdglArchitect]

That’s awesome ^^ Thanks for sharing.

 

[tomarin]

What other potential cures might be found in this Leechbook?

 

[dmar198]

cnn.com/2015/03/31/health/anglo-saxon-potion-mrsa/index.html

Only now are they finding out what Catholics have known: the Middle Ages were a far cry from being “Dark”.

Here’s the relevant recipe from an 1865 translation of the document: Work an eye salve for a wen, take cropleek and garlic, of both equal quantities, pound them well together, take wine and bullocks gall, of both equal quantities, mix with the leek, put this then into a brazen vessel, let it stand nine days in the brass vessel, wring out through a cloth and clear it well, put it into a horn, and about night time apply it with a feather to the eye; the best leechdom. source

 

[ChurchSoldier]

Anglicans kick in’ it Old School

Apart from the kidding, that really is amazing.

 

[Linusthe2nd]

cnn.com/2015/03/31/health/anglo-saxon-potion-mrsa/index.html

Only now are they finding out what Catholics have known: the Middle Ages were a far cry from being “Dark”.

If you let the video cycle there are about a dozen more interesting historical vignettes on other topics.

Linus2nd

 

[Lost_Found]

It’s hard for us to admit, medieval medicine being superior to modern medicine.

Imagine all the most brilliant and brightest super-geniuses of today’s seven billion people, all outdone by a society in “the dark ages”. Media had better call it “a potion” to show it’s not medicine but that they “lucked-out” on one of their superstitions.

We are told not to discriminate against other cultures but we are blind to do this to our ancestors.

And to think it was all accomplished with onions, garlic, wine and oxgall. No pharmaceutical industry, no educational empire, just a “simple” Catholic society appreciating God’s creation…what a great news item!