Maren McKenna

So if we had been using this compound through the ensuing thousand years, then maybe it wouldn't work.

So there's an interesting discovery there, like that what worked once...

and then was resisted, you give it a rest, and it can work again, and it will be resisted.

And you put it to rest, and if you had enough different, if you could go to different places in the different paths, to go to China, where they now got all these people studying Chinese cures and Arab cures, you could come up with a cure.

with a rich historical cocktail of armamentariums that will work if you bring them in, take them out, bring them in, take them out.

And the whole world, the whole world of the past then becomes the fruit of your future, sort of.

So it's also like now I have suddenly an image that it's possible that... This is Soren Wheeler, by the way, in conversation with Marian McKenna Latif.

That a thousand years ago, these folks went through what we went through with penicillin in that this guy wrote something in the book and it's actually called The Best Medicine.

He probably got on the cover of whatever their version of time was.

And everybody celebrated.

And then...

years later styes were coming back and the garlic wine didn't work anymore and they stopped using it and it got put away and then here we are and we discover it and it's been put away long enough that like then now i'm thinking about future some future civilization digs up an old medical textbook that was in some dusty whatever and discovers penicillin and it works

Did I lose you on that, Mary?

No, no, I'm still with you.

I'm just, I don't know.

It just seemed like such a great hypothetical construction.

I just didn't really know what I could add to it.

But, you know, technically, Mr. Ball is having this manuscript written for him.

It's in his possession.

But that doesn't mean it's his work.