Wisdom of the ancients

[BoyNextDoor]

The superbug MRSA is being killed with a 1,000-year-old treatment for eye infections based on a mix of onion, garlic and cow bile. Apparently the formula was in Bald's Leechbook "an old English manuscript containing instructions on various treatments held in the British Library."

 

[snugglestruggle]

This surprises you how?

 

[BoyNextDoor]

That there were antibiotics 1,000 years ago, not so much. I have always believe in the adage "The more things change the more they remain the same".

I think it is pretty cool, actually.

 

[toubab]

People were doing brain surgery many thousands of years ago.

 

[BoyNextDoor]

I think that is pretty cool, too.

 

[toubab]

I think that is pretty cool, too.

We agree. Some smart folks way back when.

 

[pollynova]

Is this why my doctor took two pints of blood and drilled a hole in my head when I had the flu?

 

[toubab]

Is this why my doctor took two pints of blood and drilled a hole in my head when I had the flu?

Just like today, not everyone got it right.

 

[LadyVer]

Kind of ironic. Modern Western medicine would have you believe that they are God's answer to all ills. I think radiation woke me up.

 

[snugglestruggle]

Is this why my doctor took two pints of blood and drilled a hole in my head when I had the flu?

#medival?

 

[LadyVer]

Life's for the living, or you're better off dead. (Passenger, I guess).

 

[BotanyBoy]

"If you immediately know the candle light is fire, then the meal was cooked long ago" -Oma Desala

 

[phrodeau]

People were doing brain surgery many thousands of years ago.

Yeah, and they didn't need no Obamacare, neither.