![]() ![]() They are easily treated with antibiotic cream and warm compresses. ![]() ![]() It's a bacterial infection of an eyelash follicle, caused by a common bacterium called Staph. The most likely clinical condition that correlates with a wen is a hordeolum, or, in non-medical language, a sty. A clinical trial into the effectiveness of acetic acid for treating burn wound infections is under way in the United Kingdom. As a weak acid, it can readily cross cell membranes and collapse the cross-membrane proton gradient necessary for ATP synthesis once inside the cell, acetic acid alters the cytoplasmic pH, and this can cause DNA damage and protein unfolding. This includes the ability to kill cells of key opportunistic pathogens living as monospecies biofilms (clinical isolates of the Gram-negative species Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Acinetobacter baumannii, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Enterobacter cloacae, and Proteus mirabilis, plus the Gram-positive species Staphylococcus aureus. Vinegar is generally acknowledged to act as a mild disinfectant, and pure acetic acid has been shown to exhibit various bactericidal effects at concentrations similar to or lower than those typically found in vinegar. It was published in a paper earlier this year. Here, for example is a review of the healing properties of acetic acid, better known as vinegar, which today’s page of Talmud recommends for a number of different conditions. While I doubt there are many of us eager to look for a pregnant white donkey should we be bitten by a snake, some ancient remedies appear to have remarkable healing properties. We could go on but no doubt you've got the idea. If your chemist lacks grasshopper brine, substitute with brine of small birds, enter a bathhouse, and smear yourself (Shabbat110b). If the discharge persists, take a fistful of cumin, saffron, and fenugreek, cook them in wine, and give drink, while saying to the patient: “Stop emitting your discharge” (Shabbat 110b).ĭrink grasshopper brine. Apply to the wound (Shabbat 109b).īoil three pans of Persian onions in wine. Then defecate on the trunk of a palm tree (Shabbat 109b). Then boil the scrapings in beer at twilight and the next day close your nostrils and drink it. If that does not help, take the sawdust that was scraped from the shell of a thorn bush from top to bottom, (though not from bottom to top, since perhaps then the worms will come out through the mouth). If that does not help, you should fast, and then take fatty meat and place it on coals and suck the bone and swallow vinegar. For injuries to the back of the hand, use vinegar instead (Shabbat 108b). Immerse the wound in wine (especially if you are from Mehoza). Here's a smattering of some of those practices: For the next couple of days, those who study the Talmud following the one-page-a-day Daf Yomi cycle will spend some time reading about cutting edge medical practices. ![]()
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