Until recently, the recipe for that medieval remedy lay unnoticed in the brittle pages of a 1,000-year-old text - titled “Bald’s Leechbook” - shelved in the library of the University of ...

This Medieval Potion Kills Stubborn Bacteria “Bald’s eyesalve” is effective against numerous strains of bacteria—and could help treat diabetic foot and leg ulcers Alex Fox - Correspondent ...

A salve of wine, garlic, leeks and oxgall was found to be kill staph and MRSA. Skip to main content. ... For a long time, medieval medicine has been dismissed as irrelevant.

Scientists in the United Kingdom have found what they believe could be an unlikely treatment for the deadly and notoriously hard-to-kill MRSA superbug: a foul-smelling, Medieval concoction of ...

Medieval Potion Kills Superbug MRSA Better Than Antibiotic Vancomycin. ... The salve will have to be made using more modern methods before anyone can test it in a living animal, she said.

The team was curious, but skeptical, predicting that the eye salve might show a "small amount of antibiotic activity," Dr. Freya Harrison said. Instead, it was almost completely effective—only ...

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The discovery melds medieval potion-making with modern pharmacology. In its crosshairs: Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, better known as MRSA. Skip to main content ...

A collection of medieval medical treatment recipes that will be published by Cambridge University Library show that people have long suffered from illnesses and afflictions like toothaches and ...

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 ...

Anaesthetics and disinfectants are thought to be a modern medical invention but evidence is coming to light that medieval doctors knew of them too. Evidence found at the ancient Soutra Hospital site, ...