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