The Curious Case of the Mouldy Bread:
In Ancient Egyptian culture, people believed they had an afterlife after death. Hence, Egyptians buried everything needed for one to live in the afterlife alongside the dead body.
In Ancient Egyptian culture, people believed they had an afterlife after death. Hence, Egyptians buried everything needed for one to live in the afterlife alongside the dead body.
This included jewellery, clothes and food. But one of the most important things was the medicine chest, as Egyptians believed that the most important thing in the afterlife was good health. The most famous medicine in the chest was mouldy bread!
The Egyptians believed that using mouldy bread would help heal wounds quickly and stop infection in the wound. This worked most of the time though the Egyptians had no idea how it worked.
Now, modern scientists believe that the bacteria in the bread were fighting the infection in the wound. This worked similar to modern penicillin. Though it was not even known what bacteria was during that time the ancient Egyptians were already fighting infections!
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