Rethink those two blatt at the beginning of Me SheAchzo...

This is significant. Reassessment of medications in Chazal significant.

1,000-Year-Old Eye Infection Salve May Kill MRSA Super Bug, Study Shows - ABC News

also at

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/11504166/Anglo-Saxon-cow-bile-and-garlic-potion-kills-MRSA.html

Cf.

download.yutorah.org/2014/1053/813264.pdf

hat tip to Reb Reuvain Meir Caplan!