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.

• DirectorWilfried Hauke
• Release26 June 2018
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  Documentary / History
• Duration0h 53m
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  dmfilm und tv produktion, ZDF, ARTE