Penicillin: A Medical Revolution
2018•53m•Released
DocumentaryHistoryTV Movie
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.
Director
Wilfried Hauke
Writer
Wilfried Hauke
Languages
English, German
Studio
dmfilm und tv produktion
Cast
Stephan Schad
Self - Narrator (voice)
Imanuel Humm
Alexander Flemming
Production
Company
dmfilm und tv produktion
Company
ZDF
Company
ARTE
Producer
Christian Berg
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