There's Mold in Them There Pills; Penicillin Is a Product of Luck and a Lot of Hard Science

The Washington Post | December 9, 1997| | Copyright

Nineteen ninety-eight will mark the 70th anniversary of penicillin, the drug that drew upon the principle of antibiosis, namely, using one organism against ("anti") the life ("biosis") of another.

To be sure, people had long sought such antibiotics in their natural surroundings, even though the term was not coined until 1889. Ancients had studied herbs and other plant life in the hope that their application to human maladies would be successful. In colonial America, for instance, settlers mimicked Indian cures that relied upon trees and other plant life. Quinine derived from bark, ...

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