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4/8/2015

Call the doctor! MRSA and the Anglo-Saxons

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Say "Leechbook"! Dr Christina Lee is researching the efficacy of Anglo-Saxon medical recipes. Apologies for the intruding Dr Monk. Image: © Christopher Monk 2015
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Human neutrophil ingesting MRSA, or so I'm told. By National Institutes of Health (NIH) (National Institutes of Health (NIH)) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.
Blessed readers, you are truly blessed today, for the Anglo-Saxon Monk was able to secure an interview with the gracious Dr Christina Lee of the University of Nottingham. 

In case you haven't heard, Dr Lee and her collaborators have been making quite a stir in the world of medicine by coming up with a potential solution to your perennial twenty-first century problem of the hospital 'superbug' MRSA. 

(You can read an article about their research in New Scientist.)

And where have they found the answer?  In Anglo-Saxon England, of course!  We're not as backward as you thought!

So please enjoy, my beloved ones, listening to the interview (link below).  But also please do make allowances for Dr Lee's difficulties in conveying her rarefied leechdom to a humble servant of the Lord, and moreover for my inexplicable lapses into twenty-first century idiom. 

Just how many OKs is it acceptable for a transhistorical, eleventh-century monk to utter, I wonder?  May the Lord cure me of this malady!
 


 
Interview with Dr Christina Lee.

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Elaine Moxon
19/8/2015 11:23:41 am

This is fabulous! As a former Aromatherapist, I found this incredibly fascinating. It will be interesting to discover what further cures may be revealed in the future. Great interview!

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Chris *The Anglo-Saxon Monk
19/8/2015 02:54:46 pm

Thank you for your kind words. I think this is a really exciting story. It will be interesting to see how it develops.

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