Penicillin: A Medical Revolution
In the summer of 1928, the Scottish physician Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin by accident, but it would take two more decades and a world war before he and others succeeded in producing the antibiotic in such large quantities as to eradicate the epidemics of the time: typhus, syphilis, gangrene and tuberculosis.
- Year : 2018
- Country : Germany
- Genre : Documentary, History, TV Movie
- Studio : dmfilm und tv produktion, ZDF, ARTE
- Keyword : medicine, penicillin
- Director : Wilfried Hauke
- Cast : Stephan Schad, Imanuel Humm