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Posted on 01/08/2019 8:54:17 PM PST by Theoria
An ancient folk remedy from County Fermanagh could help scientists in the fight against drug-resistant bacteria.
According to local belief, the soil from a churchyard in Boho can cure infections.
A microbiologist who took samples to see if there was any scientific basis for the cure has made an astonishing discovery.
Dr Gerry Quinn found a unique strain of streptomyces, a microorganism used to produce antibiotics.
It was found to kill the top three pathogens (organisms that cause disease) identified by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as a major threat to human health.
"When we brought the soil back to the laboratory we found a new species of streptomyces that had never been discovered before and it contained many antibiotics and some of these antibiotics actually killed some multi-resistant pathogens," he told BBC News NI.
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Pretty cool.
‘Local historian Frank McHugh, a member of the Boho Heritage Group, said little has been written about the Boho cure, but the tradition dates back to the Reverend James McGirr, the parish priest on Boho in 1803.
“He must obviously have had the facility to cure people and people must have thought very highly of him.
“What he said was, ‘after I die, the clay that covers me will cure anything that I cured when I was with you’.’
DNA is wild stuff, with Powers.
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See. Those old wives lnew
But they tell so many tales it’s hard to sort them. ;^)
Who, or what, was buried there?
Definition of Gynecologist: Someone who spreads old wives’ tails.
Irish dirt. It’s just better.
“According to local belief, the soil from a churchyard in Boho can cure infections.”
In the neighboring Counties, locals say that whiskey is good for what ails you.
“Definition of Gynecologist: Someone who spreads old wives’ tails.”
LMAO!
Interesting!
There must be a vampire buried there.
Send kids outside to play in the dirt and they’re much more healthy.
1803 is ancient?
So many professions I should have gone into.
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