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TIL that door knobs made out of brass automatically disinfect themselves in about 8 hours through the oligodynamic effect

via reddit.com

Fascinating. Good post.

Silver does this also, which was probably handy for silverware before antibacterial dish soap was invented.

That’s mentioned in the article as well. They also stated that a copper or silver container can disinfect a pot of water in a few hours. im gonna add a copper vessel to my emergency provisions now. @yourunclejingo you may find this stuff interesting too.

Its almost like our ancestors did shit that made sense even if they didn’t always fully understand why.

Does this…imply that lycanthropy is a bacterial infection?

Huh!  In my writing research I came across a salve from the Middle Ages that consisted of wine, garlic, onion, and ox bile set in a brass container to ferment (I guess) for a couple weeks.  I thought it really odd that the directions were so specific to the metal of the pot to let it sit it.  Maybe not, then.

BTW: it’s Bald’s eye salve, an Anglo-Saxon remedy for “eye wens” that is highly effective in killing off our modern antibiotic-resistant superbugs like MRSA.  “it wiped out most of the MRSA cells after just 24 hours and was more efficient than modern antibiotics.”