Did Penicillin Really Come From a Moldy Cantaloupe? The Wild Backstory Behind Amoxil
Everyone knows penicillin came from mold. Far fewer know the rest of the story — that it sat nearly forgotten for a decade, that wartime scientists were so short of it they recycled it out of patients' urine, and that almost every gram of penicillin ever made traces back to a single mold growing on a cantaloupe in an Illinois fruit market. The amoxicillin in Amoxil is the polished, modern...
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