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Drugs taken from nature

Mould to penicillin

Fleming's plate was 1928; the drug was 1942, and only because a mouldy Peoria cantaloupe carried a strain that yielded enough of it to treat anyone.

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Fleming's plate was 1928; the drug was 1942, and only because a mouldy Peoria cantaloupe carried a strain that yielded enough of it to treat anyone.

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