[rsuelzer]

I'm unclear as to why or how this is entirely useful. This article is probably missing some of the key findings that would make it interesting. In reality, killing a MRSA bacteria culture is trivial and could be done by a child. The real usefulness of this discovery would be if this liquid could be safely ingested and produce antibiotic activity while in the body. Pouring something like bleach, gasoline, hydrochloric acid, liquid nitrogen on MRSA cultures will also kill them. But, but these things won't help treat a MRSA infection in the body.

[colah3]

The article seems to suggest it is mostly of historical interest. The researchers seem impressed by its effectiveness for a medicine of that time.

It's of further interest because it seems to have come out of a tradition of medicine that was based on something similar to the scientific method.

[Natsu]

Given the ingredients, one would assume that it's at least safe to ingest. Whether it's actually effective or not is an open question given the lack of data in the article.

[Xorlev]

I don't know about you, but if I was in the hospital with a resistant strain of staph, I wouldn't go for the gasoline or liquid nitrogen treatment.

Fact is that MRSA and others just adapt too quickly to our antibiotics to the point where there are strains in the wild without any antibiotic agents that affect them. That's usually a death sentence.

If there's something else out there that can be turned into a drug that's safe for humans, that's another tool doctors have to save lives.