Penicillin: A Medical Revolution

Movie · 0h 53m

Starring Stephan Schad, Imanuel Humm

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.