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Penicillin: A Medical Revolution

Penicillin: A Medical Revolution

2018•53m
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.

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Production

dmfilm und tv produktion, ZDF, ARTE

Language

DE

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Stephan Schad

Stephan Schad

Self - Narrator (voice)

Imanuel Humm

Imanuel Humm

Alexander Flemming

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