Georges Clemenceau's Toothbrush Kept Its Secrets for a Century

French museum curators never cease to astonish. This time with their scholarly labours. Having examined the toothbrush of the Prime Minister of France in 1906 to 1909 and again in 1917 to 1920, researchers have managed to reconstruct his microbiome. The brush is kept in the Clemenceau Museum, where it forms part of the display, and, as it turns out, it has been kept rather well, for almost a hundred years after its owner's death it still preserves his biological traces.

Thanks to the reconstruction of Georges Clemenceau's oral microbiome, scientists have been able to refine his medical record and draw conclusions about the state of his health, which in his last years was quite good.

And just imagine what the scientists of the future will manage, if even now a hundred-year-old toothbrush becomes grounds for medical opinions?