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by lost_my_pwd 3630 days ago
There's a Radiolab podcast [0] about the revival of a 1000 year old antibiotic from an old medical text. Towards the end they discuss theories as to why something that appears to be tremendously effective was somehow lost to time and one likely explanation is this "shelving" effect.

[0] http://www.radiolab.org/story/best-medicine/