Penicillin: A Medical Revolution

Directed by Wilfried Hauke

With Stephan Schad and Imanuel Humm

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.