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.
Credits
Penicillin: A Medical Revolution Cast
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Character |
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Stephan Schad
He was 53, now 60 years old
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as Narrator |
Penicillin: A Medical Revolution Crew
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Department |
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George Kochbeck as Music. He was 62 (now 69) years old
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Sound |
