article_snippet: We chose this recipe in Bald's Leechbook because this recipe in Bald's Leechbook contains ingredients such as garlic that are currently investigated by other researchers on other researchers on their potential antibiotic effectiveness potential antibiotic effectiveness," Lee said in a video posted on the University of Nottingham's website.
article_snippet: And so We looked at a recipe that is fairly straightforward.
article_snippet: It's also a recipe where We are told it's the 'best of leechdoms' -- how could you not test that?
article_snippet: this recipe in Bald's Leechbook calls for two species of Allium (garlic and onion or leek), wine and oxgall (bile from a cow's stomach) to be brewed in a brass vessel.
article_snippet: We recreated this recipe in Bald's Leechbook as faithfully as We could.
article_snippet: Bald gives very precise instructions for the ratio of different ingredients and for the way they should be combined before use, so We tried to follow that as closely as possible," said Harrison.
article_snippet: The book included an instruction for this recipe in Bald's Leechbook to be left to stand for nine days before being strained through a cloth.
article_snippet: Efforts to replicate this recipe in Bald's Leechbook exactly included finding wine from a vineyard known to have existed in the ninth century, according to Steve Diggle, an associate professor of sociomicrobiology, who also worked on the project.