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To: Hardastarboard

——Antibiotics have only been around for about 70 years——

Actually, we don’t know about the age except it is very very old. Penicillin, the first widely used antibiotic was derived from mold and produced by a living organism.

Penicillin was discovered 70 years ago but has been around forever


11 posted on 01/04/2011 5:29:43 AM PST by bert (K.E. N.P. N.C. D.E. +12 .....( History is a process, not an event ))
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To: bert

Many olden fermented drinks like beer were used as medicine too.


12 posted on 01/04/2011 9:02:39 AM PST by GraceG
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