“Take cropleek and garlic, of both equal quantities, pound them well together… take wine and bullocks gall, mix with the leek… let it stand nine days in the brass vessel…”
The modern recreation of this Anglo-Saxon recipe from 9th century A.D., now housed in the British Library as part of the old English medical compendium “Bald’s Leechbook”, has proven to be indeed a remedy against MRSA. MRSA are antibiotic-resistant bacteria, which can lead to deadly infections of patients in modern hospitals.
Since leek, garlic and onions were common in Mesopotamia as well, this research can give hints on how effective Mesopotamian recipes might have been.
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Marius Hoppe
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