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To: ROTB

Herodotus’ modern translators had a good laugh about the Egyptians’ use of crocodile dung for eye ailments — turns out the ancient E’s had by accident found a naturally occurring antibiotic. Maybe that’s what you meant.


27 posted on 11/10/2010 3:45:01 PM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: SunkenCiv

>turns out the ancient E’s had by accident found a naturally occurring antibiotic

“Even a stopped clock ...”


29 posted on 11/10/2010 10:30:53 PM PST by ROTB (Without a Christian revival, we are government slaves, or nuked by China/Russia during armed revolt.)
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