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  • Roman-Era 'Cosmetics' May Have Treated Eye Chlamydia

    04/20/2013 7:14:37 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 4 replies
    LiveScience ^ | April 17, 2013 | Stephanie Pappas
    The tools are found across Great Britain and date back to around A.D. 43 to A.D. 410, a time when much of the island was under Roman control. They do bear resemblance to modern-day cosmetic kits, but they're also similar to tools used in folk treatments of trachoma, the leading cause of preventable blindness around the world today, said Wendy Morrison, a researcher at the Institute of Archaeology at the University of Oxford. "Trachoma is a disease which has plagued humans for millennia," Morrison told LiveScience. "We have ethnographic examples from modern Africa and historical examples from ancient India that...