Penicillin: A Medical Revolution

Original title: Die Penizillin-Story
Duration: 53 min
Release date: 2018-06-26
IMDB

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.

Documentary History TV Movie

Die Penizillin-Story

Watch Providers

Can't find providers

Similar Films

  • Unrest
  • Sicko
  • The Song That Calls You Home
  • Baserria Hartu Du Gaitzak
  • The Enemies of Reason
  • Oliver Sacks: His Own Life
  • Dying for Drugs
  • Des hommes et des dieux
  • The Last Shaman
  • Food Matters
  • Kímmapiiyipitssini: The Meaning of Empathy
  • Emperor of Hemp
  • National Geographic: The Incredible Human Body
  • Cancer: The Forbidden Cures
  • Cancer; The Integrative Perspective
  • Faceless
  • My Dead Body
  • Voices from the Shadows
  • The Fantastical World of Hormones with Professor John Wass

NextFilm 2025