Anglo-Saxon microbiology paper published

Human neutrophil ingesting MRSA. By National Institutes of Health. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Now, blessed readers, I've still got to wait several hundred years before I get to witness the wizardry of the printing press, so I'm rather excited to tell you all that the American Society for Microbiology has published an Open Access journal article by Dr Freya Harrison and her colleagues concerning the Anglo-Saxon medical remedy that has killed your MRSA 'superbug'. 

(You can listen to my interview with Dr Christina Lee, a professor of medieval studies, on the same subject.)

So for all you twenty-first century physicians and philosophers out there, just click on the link below.  Now, where did I put my quill?  

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A 1000 year old antimicrobial remedy