Saturday, 3 January 2015

We Used to Recycle Drugs From Patients' Urine

We Used to Recycle Drugs From Patients' Urine


When penicillin was first used medically, in 1940, it was a time of austerity. While Alexander Fleming first discovered penicillin in 1928, his world-changing observations had garnered hardly any notice, and it wasn't until 1938 that another team of reserachers finally began to isolate and test the active chemical ingredients in the world's first antibiotic.* By that time, World War II was raging, and medical manufacturing capacity that could be devoted...

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