A medieval remedy for MRSA is just the start of it. Powdered poo, anyone? | Richard Sugg

Don’t write-off corpse medicine – the remarkable discovery by Nottingham University shows what treatments can be extracted from a cow, or indeed a human

Earlier this week, we learned that researchers at Nottingham University, having “recreated a ninth-century Anglo-Saxon remedy using onion, garlic and part of a cow’s stomach” were then astonished to find it almost completely wiped out the superbug, MRSA.

The news was certainly music to my ears. Over several years of discussing corpse medicine with different people, I had found that one of the most common questions was: “Did it work?”

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