...before I talked about moldy bread in fantasy. sunflower_sky turned up some links you can read if you are interested. I'm going to make my previous post private so as not to confuse any other poor souls out there. :P

Links:

The discovery and development of penicillin

Secrets of the Mummy's Medicine Chest

The silly thing is, when I was typing up the first post and mentioned flours being stripped of all nutrients, my brain did a little hick about those very "good" things being what molds and goes rancid, but I had a bone to pick, and I kept on gnawing...wrong bone or no. :P  Guess that'll learn me.

thanks, sunflower_sky, for not being the lazy woman that I am. :D