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...potato stems and leaves, reported Department of Agriculture researchers at Beltsville, Md., also produced two antibiotics. One worked against Staphylococcus aureus, the germ that causes boils; the other against fungi that damage plants. In the skins and pulps of ripe bananas, there were two more: one worked against Tinea trychophytina, the fungus that causes athlete's foot, the other against the fungus that makes tomato plants wilt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Humble Beginnings | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

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