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Penicillin: A Medical Revolution 2018

53 min Documentary History TV 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.

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  • Stephan Schad as Self - Narrator (voice)
  • Imanuel Humm as Alexander Flemming

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