I'm sorry to hear about your "patient"... perhaps a few self-flagellating priests or maybe some blood letting would have helped...LOL!! Hard to imagine that a little bacteria like y. pestis -- so easily overcome today -- wiped out just over half of the global population in Medieval times. Without it though, we would have never had the Renaissance. A little give and take is good.
Hmmm...seems I forgot to bring in the priests! LOL. But don't forget that a little tiny bacteria killed more people in WWI than were killed in action, those little buggers are insidious!
Ah, hopefully we can learn from the past - look at the new research that uses a remedy from a medieval manuscript against drug-resistant MRSA! Hehehe - sometimes they got it right back then, sometimes.
They sure did...like using maggots to clean away gangrene, leeches to remove and reduce blood clots, honey as an antibacterial / bacteria-static agent. Heck, most of our common medicines were once "herbal" remedies! Willow bark = aspirin, Valerian root = valium, Poppy milk = morphine -- to name the obvious ones.
How about the research into people who were genetically immune to Black Plague being used to help find people who are genetically immune to HIV/AIDS?
True enough! Some things they got right, and some things they got horribly wrong!
Interesting idea about studying the genetically immune for modern cures.
My dilemma is this... I'm a grammar nazi and the scanlation group doing chapters 23, 24, & 25 has made an error REPEATEDLY -- COSTUMER: A person who provides attire for theatrical events. CUSTOMER: A person who patronizes an establishment with the intent of purchasing goods or services.
I want to help this group but, since they have their own host site and disallow uploads to others , if I approach them they may discontinue this series! Now what do I do? Someone help me help them, please.