was to collect the urine of patients taking it
Do we enough appreciate the “luxury” we are living in?
After Alexander Fleming’s 1928 discovery of a mold that inhibited Staphylococci bacteria growth and the first treatment of a patient with penicillin in 1942, demand for this antibiotic grew rapidly
https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/health/dyk-penicillin-used-be-recycled-urine
Penicillin changed the outcome of WW2 [bein ha-yeter][among other factors]