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“Antibiotic” Beer Gave Ancient Africans Health Buzz

Ok so I won’t be making this kind of beer - but it is still good to know that an entire people were able to be healthier thanks to beer.

Favorite paragraph:

Armelagos said the Egyptians used beer as a gum-disease treatment, a dressing for wounds, and even an anal fumigant—a vaporborne pesticide to treat diseases of the anus. The anthropologist also believes the tetracycline protected the Nubians from bone infections, as all the bones he examined are infection free.