| Ernest Duchesne’s Tassel | |
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Origin |
Ernest Duchesne |
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Type |
Tassel |
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Effects |
Can kill any infectious or deadly bacteria |
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Downsides |
The user’s following actions will be unrecognized for 32 hours |
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Activation |
Brushing over the infected area |
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Collected by |
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Section |
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Aisle |
67224-1058 |
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Shelf |
364012-8462-573 |
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Date of Collection |
May 19, 1913 |
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Origin[]
Ernest Duchesne (30 May 1874 – 12 April 1912) was a French physician who noted that certain molds kill bacteria. He made this discovery 32 years before Alexander Fleming discovered the antibiotic properties of penicillin, a substance derived from those molds, but his research went unnoticed.
Effects[]
The artifact requires one person to brush the tassel over the infected person. The affected will have all harmful bacteria destroyed and will possess a slightly stronger immune system for the next few days. However, whatever actions the user does in the immediate 32 hours after treatment will go unknown to everybody but the person who treated them.
Trivia[]
- This was one of the artifacts used by Warehouse 13 to synthesize a vaccine for the 1918 Influenza Epidemic.