Penicillin: A Medical Revolution
2018
53 minutes
Overview
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.
Top Cast
Stephan Schad
Self - Narrator (voice)
Imanuel Humm
Alexander Flemming