"An old remedy kills a modern "superbug"?" Topic

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Saginaw	31 Mar 2015 7:33 a.m. PST
Apparently so, and it comes from the Anglo-Saxons: link This news immediately reminded me of the line from H.G. Wells's The War of the Worlds: "…it was found that they were killed by the putrefactive and disease bacteria against which their systems were unprepared. . . slain, after all man's defenses had failed, by the humblest thing that God in His wisdom put upon this earth." FASCINATING stuff!
John the OFM	31 Mar 2015 7:56 a.m. PST
"…, the preparation turned into a kind of loathsome, odorous slime…" Now, that's something you don't read every day in too many chemistry journals.
enfant perdus	31 Mar 2015 10:13 a.m. PST
She unblinded me with science! The Anglo-Saxons were pretty good at killing all sorts of things. This should surprise nobody.
Editor in Chief Bill	31 Mar 2015 10:31 a.m. PST
Got some bullocks gall and cropleek handy?
Winston Smith	31 Mar 2015 4:01 p.m. PST
Stat!
Gunfreak	31 Mar 2015 4:04 p.m. PST
I can kill superbugs too, give me a close to 100% solution of clorine, and I'll kill most things from superbugs to redwoods.
Martin From Canada	31 Mar 2015 5:11 p.m. PST
Gunfreak, if you're going for overkill… xkcd.com/1217
Gunfreak	01 Apr 2015 2:55 p.m. PST
I think a vat of concentrated clorine or sulphyric acid is much better then a hand gun. Even a big bullet only hits a few thousand or million bacteria. With a big enough vat or swimming pool i can kill septillions of bacteria in one go
Bowman	01 Apr 2015 6:01 p.m. PST
Killing bugs is actually easy. Killing pathogens without selecting mutations, harming the host or his/her normal flora……..not so much.