Penicillin: A Medical Revolution

Penicillin: A Medical Revolution

0.0 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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