Medieval medicine nails superbug
01 April 2015 - 02:54
A medieval remedy for eye infections, the preparation of which was described in a thousand-year-old manuscript in the British Library, has been found to kill the superbug MRSA. Anglo-Saxon specialist Christina Lee, of the School of English at Nottingham University, recreated the 10th-century potion to see if it worked.
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