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Penicillin: A Medical Revolution (2018)
Genre: Documentary, History, TV Movie
Released: 2018-06-26
Runtime: 53 min.
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.
