Penicillin: A Medical Revolution (26/06/2018)

Production : dmfilm und tv produktion, ZDF, ARTE

Synopsis

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.