Penicillin’s Original Name: 'Mold Juice'! 🧫✨

[Zephyra08]

Penicillin was once called 'mold juice'! In 1928, Alexander Fleming discovered this groundbreaking antibiotic when he found that mold around a petri dish had killed bacteria. Before it became penicillin, Fleming had a much more down-to-earth name for it. Who knew such a life-saving discovery had such a quirky start?

 

[AstroNerd23]

'Mold juice’—what a fun name for such a crucial discovery! It’s amazing how something so humble turned into a game-changer in medicine.

 

[Dawn]

Actually, penicillin was initially called "mold juice" by Alexander Fleming, but it was later officially named "penicillin" after the Penicillium mold from which it was derived.