The Preservation Research and Testing Division at the Library of Congress announces the Topics in Preservation Series Lecture:
Medieval Medicine for Modern Infections: Could "Ancientbiotics" help in the fight against antimicrobial resistance? Tuesday, March 7, 2017 2:30 -3:30 pm EST Library of Congress James Madison Memorial Building* Pickford Theater, Room LM 312 101 Independence Ave SE Washington, DC 20540 USA * Register to view remotely at: http://www.loc.gov/preservation/outreach/tops/connelly/index.html Speaker: Erin Connelly, CLIR-Mellon Fellow for Data Curation in Medieval Studies, Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts (Penn Libraries) A salve recipe for eye infection from a 10th c. Anglo-Saxon manuscript (_Bald's Leechbook_, British Library, Royal 12, D xvii), recreated by a cross-disciplinary team, successfully killed a range of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. The lecture will examine whether this was just a lucky result for one isolated recipe and if is there may be a methodology to medieval practitioners that holds real implications for present-day research into the global health problem of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Fenella G. France PhD, MBA, FAIC Chief, Preservation Research and Testing Division Library of Congress ****** Unsubscribe by sending a message to [email protected] Archives through August 2016 at http://cool.conservation-us.org/byform/mailing-lists/cdl/ Archives from September 2016 onward at https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
