Penicillin: A Medical Revolution [Die Penizillin-Story]
- Release Year
- 2018
- Runtime
- 53m
- Genres
- Documentary
- History
- TV Movie
- Directed By
- Wilfried Hauke
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.
