It's the shock of the old.
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It has long been a theme on Treehugger: remembering old ways, from recipes to building design. But now Melissa goes way, way back a full millennium, 500 years before Shakespeare's witches' brew cooked up from "Eye of newt and toe of frog, Wool of bat and tongue of dog." It's Bald's eyesalve, made from onion, garlic, wine, and bile – "a 1,000-year-old remedy that is remarkably effective today" at killing bacteria. Paging Dr. Fauci.... | | |
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