The discovery of penicillin (1964)

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  • Опубліковано 9 лют 2010
  • A government produced film about the discovery of penicillin by Sir Alexander Fleming, and the continuing development of its use as an antibiotic by Howard Florey and Ernst Boris Chain. The film uses many modernist animations to depict the scientific research. This video was made from material preserved by the BFI National Archive. Find out more: catalogue.wellcomelibrary.org/....
    Listen to Sir Alexander Fleming discuss the problem of antibiotic resistance in 1945: / discovery-of-penicilli... .

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  • @ermac102
    @ermac102 4 роки тому +304

    this is something a teacher would make a class watch and take notes and probably a quiz and im here watching it for fun haha

    • @zingosketch1675
      @zingosketch1675 3 роки тому +15

      Well that’s what I’m doing right now bucko

    • @ce3824
      @ce3824 3 роки тому +4

      Very true brother

    • @primroseinmypocket
      @primroseinmypocket 3 роки тому +8

      Thats what im doing now lmfao

    • @MidnightCapricorn2696
      @MidnightCapricorn2696 3 роки тому +2

      The class watching thing is something I have to do, but idk, I might bookmark this video to watch again.

    • @KitKat-qb3qe
      @KitKat-qb3qe 3 роки тому +3

      Knowledge is power! I try to learn as much as I can 😃

  • @bladerunnerblues2501
    @bladerunnerblues2501 5 років тому +193

    Can you imagine how many lives was and is saved by these men, hundreds of millions

    • @moviecast3514
      @moviecast3514 4 роки тому +16

      May God Grant Them The Best palce in Heaven.

    • @eclectic2327
      @eclectic2327 4 роки тому +9

      Bladerunner Blues billions

    • @bladerunnerblues2501
      @bladerunnerblues2501 3 роки тому +1

      Free Thinker I’m guessing your a BLM supporter

    • @jermsbestfriend9296
      @jermsbestfriend9296 3 роки тому +5

      @Free Thinker overpopulation isn't a big problem. Population concentration is.
      We won't even know what we'll die from. The government didn't tell anyone about covid until half the people i knew were sick

    • @milanstanic6240
      @milanstanic6240 3 роки тому +1

      People were treated with moldy bread long before this discovery. Fleming only managed to make a profit for multinational companies from folk medicine.

  • @BMarie774
    @BMarie774 4 роки тому +86

    Could you imagine if he just threw it out...

    • @GuyFromTheSouth
      @GuyFromTheSouth 4 роки тому +8

      Lol there would probably only be half the people in the world

    • @starshot5172
      @starshot5172 3 роки тому +2

      @@GuyFromTheSouth maybe the single or second most important decision in human history, wow

    • @mkzhero
      @mkzhero 3 роки тому +4

      Someone else wouldn't some time later. Mold was already being used on wounds since ancient Egypt, it was inevitable scientists came across it sooner or later, in fact, this here was probably later rather than sooner... Still, good thing it was at least at that point.

  • @ashkanDOD
    @ashkanDOD 9 років тому +89

    I used penicillin last night and now i feel Great ....
    Thanks doctor Alexander Fleming

    • @kkealohanui
      @kkealohanui 6 років тому +3

      Ashkan Khani got your wisdom tooth removed?

    • @alexandrunistor6483
      @alexandrunistor6483 5 років тому +1

      Nicolae Paulescu invented penicillin

    • @Kareemdinho10
      @Kareemdinho10 5 років тому +1

      @@alexandrunistor6483 He studied insulin although the Toronto team purified it ...
      The original Discovery of Penicillin was made by Clodomiro Picado in 1923.

    • @LordDirus007
      @LordDirus007 3 роки тому +2

      Condoms are cheaper bud

  • @WellcomeFilm
    @WellcomeFilm  13 років тому +71

    Yes, the narrator is David Attenborough.

  • @rwolf9741
    @rwolf9741 4 роки тому +28

    Actually the first discoverer of penicillin was an Italian scientist named Vincenzo Tiberio, he discovered penicillin in 1895, before Flaming, sadly his work was ignored for almost 40 years.

    • @MrDaraghkinch
      @MrDaraghkinch 2 роки тому +11

      He observed that cleaning the walls of wells led to illness, and proposed antibacterial properties of moulds. At the time, his work was disregarded as coincidence and received no further study.
      Ouch!

    • @starnoelle8248
      @starnoelle8248 Рік тому +5

      ​@@MrDaraghkinchyeah you have to be able to prove your work or your just going off theories perhaps there a reason why he didnt get credited

  • @herbalpeace
    @herbalpeace 11 років тому +48

    This made me understand penicillin production far better then my textbook.
    Thank you!

  • @007LadyFabulous
    @007LadyFabulous 3 роки тому +16

    Chain was a German refugee, Florey born in Adelaide, Australia and Fleming in Scotland. Amazing that their paths brought them to change medicine in such a profound way.

    • @MadCapMag
      @MadCapMag Рік тому

      It’s sad that the Allies never shared their discoveries with their enemy. It would have saved so many innocent lives.

    • @MrFF432
      @MrFF432 Рік тому +2

      @@MadCapMag Not starting a war would have saved even more. Quit painting aggressors as victims.

    • @MadCapMag
      @MadCapMag Рік тому

      @@MrFF432 German soldiers weren’t aggressors :) the German government was.

  • @nowhereman6019
    @nowhereman6019 2 роки тому +9

    This is by far one of the MOST significant and important moments in human history.

    • @nurulqwe
      @nurulqwe 2 роки тому

      Urmm no. Not even close.

  • @kennethfacun8261
    @kennethfacun8261 5 років тому +26

    Huge respect to all the scientists who worked hard for the people!

  • @markforquer
    @markforquer 10 років тому +43

    I used to give penicillin injections to guys in the Army who had GC. The needle was so huge (because the medicine was as thick as mayonnaise) that it would leave holes in your hip where I injected it. The pain was out of this world.

    • @zaaya7719
      @zaaya7719 3 роки тому +1

      Mark Forquer 😦

    • @polishlass5067
      @polishlass5067 2 роки тому +1

      Lol that's savage. I would love to serve some of them out to the patients 🤣

  • @Edwoodb3
    @Edwoodb3 8 років тому +83

    Great old school video. However the footage of some poor bastard burning to death during the WW2 section was freaky. No one needs to see that.

    • @kyleschroder3659
      @kyleschroder3659 7 років тому +25

      You can tell that a video is truly old when there is something out of a snuff film in it.

    • @aishamohamed3044
      @aishamohamed3044 6 років тому +1

      Dead3eD ikr

    • @ROMULOBENICIO
      @ROMULOBENICIO 6 років тому +2

      Dead3eD other times dude

    • @richmellow3315
      @richmellow3315 5 років тому +5

      (7:00)

    • @Gallzatron
      @Gallzatron 4 роки тому +9

      That's reality. Don't shy away from it, it catches up either way

  • @handrydwiputra3746
    @handrydwiputra3746 2 роки тому +7

    thank you for your discovery Sir Alexander Fleming 😭 You Saved a million or more human's life

  • @b01tact10n
    @b01tact10n Рік тому +4

    My grandmother told me her father and her would head to the smokehouse during the winter to retrieve some leftover smoked salmon to eat. She said mold grew on the fish and she was told never to clean or wipe off the mold to just eat the fish as is.
    I was taught never to wipe off the mold that is growing. Also it gives the fish a unique flavor that I really love there is nothing like that taste 😁

  • @tortivable
    @tortivable 4 роки тому +8

    The power of observation.

  • @averageisekaifan
    @averageisekaifan 4 роки тому +10

    People like Doctor John Snow and Alexander Fleming make this world a better place :)

  • @MrBacknasli
    @MrBacknasli 10 років тому +35

    somewhere there's an interview with alexander fleming about patenting penicillin. he than said that his discovery belongs to humanity and that there's no patent on it.. do you by any chance have a link to this interview?

    • @thomasgriffin8269
      @thomasgriffin8269 3 роки тому +1

      You can make penncilin yourself

    • @ib7991
      @ib7991 3 роки тому +2

      @@thomasgriffin8269 id like to learn

    • @gabbychikas2654
      @gabbychikas2654 3 роки тому +11

      So did the guy who invented the dialysis machine for people with kidney failure. He built the very first out of broken pieces of a washing machine among other things from scrap during war times. The first person he tested it on was a woman who ended up living on dialysis indefinitely and lived for about 20 additional years. She was just the test subject. He realized what he just did for humanity and rejected a German health facility who offered him millions for his patent. He patented it, but he sold his machines for nothing. Literally free for every healthcare clinic and hospital to use because everyone deserves life. Not just those who could afford it. And he sued the facilities who tried to charge people money for sonething that legally belonged to him. This was just off the top of my head from memory so I dont remember his name. My dialysis professor went to his fineral and met his family. Sorry for the long comment! It just reminded me of a different person who gave away his life preserving invention for the sake of humanity rather than making money off of other people's pain and suffering

  • @BeLIVEsinSELF
    @BeLIVEsinSELF Рік тому +3

    Appreciate the work
    Well displayed
    And explained
    Your voice has an power of storytelling

  • @Mo7hammd
    @Mo7hammd 7 років тому +4

    I'm speechless i don't know how to thank you such an amazing video :D

  • @etroqueen9891
    @etroqueen9891 2 роки тому +2

    Instantly had flashbacks of the TV being wheeled into class in highschool again.

  • @Cannibal713
    @Cannibal713 7 років тому +29

    Such an incredible advancement for the betterment of the human race. And all thanks to some dirty dishes. Cool old video, thanks for sharing.

    • @sirnigelfarage1177
      @sirnigelfarage1177 6 років тому +1

      Cannibal713 human race is evil

    • @antonjackson71
      @antonjackson71 5 років тому +1

      Usnea works better, but the medical industry cannot patent something natural, that is why marijuana is illegal.

    • @stoopsyo
      @stoopsyo 2 роки тому +1

      How many fools disagreed with that mayo bro ? 2021 in effect

  • @skytyper2
    @skytyper2 10 років тому +1

    Thank you for the doc. Very interesting!

  • @colombianflag717
    @colombianflag717 6 років тому +10

    This video is very informative..

  • @rehanasultana4517
    @rehanasultana4517 4 роки тому +3

    Thanks Albert Fleming for discovering penicillin we can understand about their uses

  • @fawadahmed83
    @fawadahmed83 4 роки тому +10

    Thanks to Sir Alexander Flaming, Floray and Chain for saving humanity. great respect for them because when humans killing each other in the name of Race, country and I religion, these true heros was focus on saving mankind.

    • @vinsgraphics
      @vinsgraphics 3 роки тому +1

      Australian Howard Florey worked with Chain to bring penicillin to medical reality. They shared the Nobel Prize with Fleming, who actually dismissed Florey’s work.

    • @fawadahmed83
      @fawadahmed83 3 роки тому

      @@vinsgraphics dirty poltics everywhere and all the time. Such a shanme

    • @Capture.Castle
      @Capture.Castle 11 місяців тому

      Fleming was a soldier in WW1.

  • @madhusudansiripurapu5880
    @madhusudansiripurapu5880 2 роки тому +2

    What an exceptional video! And what a service to academic community! 👌👍🙏

  • @mstasz2108
    @mstasz2108 3 роки тому +2

    Am I the only person who gasped at the sight of the man set ablaze by the flame thrower? Surely not.

    • @laurieb3703
      @laurieb3703 2 роки тому

      Yeah, that was horrifying and unnecessary to include in this video

  • @michaelakuncek6788
    @michaelakuncek6788 3 роки тому +1

    very interesting I'm making a presentation to school so this really helps thanks for the video

  • @SG-oy4pr
    @SG-oy4pr 4 роки тому +1

    Great video

  • @vinsgraphics
    @vinsgraphics 3 роки тому +3

    Sir Howard Florey was Australian, if you please. Most Australians know who he is, especially since his portrait graced the Australian $50 note from 1973 to 1995.

  • @MuIIigan
    @MuIIigan 4 роки тому +2

    Seems like such an unlikely discovery. Good gracious, what a bunch of geniuses.

  • @fatmashapan2788
    @fatmashapan2788 10 років тому +18

    its wow . thank you doctor Fleming God bless you

    • @colombianflag717
      @colombianflag717 6 років тому +2

      Fatma Shapan because of him we have antibiotics

    • @antonjackson71
      @antonjackson71 5 років тому

      How could you say God bless in a pharmacy video? God made usnea, oil of oregano and cannabis oil. Pharmaceuticals is the practice of witchcraft in the bible.

    • @antonjackson71
      @antonjackson71 5 років тому

      @@colombianflag717we had better antibiotics made by God. He maybe responsible for patented antibiotics. We know who profits from patented drugs.

    • @svetoslavkoev7678
      @svetoslavkoev7678 5 років тому +1

      I'm sofa king hungry! Feel free to r/woooosh me but you are kidding, right? About that God part and oils that won’t save you from deadly diseases.

  • @andrewhunt6241
    @andrewhunt6241 3 роки тому

    How long after taking a antibiotic how long does it continue to work for.

  • @troller123able
    @troller123able 11 років тому +1

    Very interesting

  • @brittacularrr
    @brittacularrr 12 років тому +6

    I'm watching this for my online history 102 class!

    • @paulriversred738
      @paulriversred738 2 роки тому

      Did you pass? I'm from the future and I'm just wondering?

  • @blayblaw
    @blayblaw 6 років тому +1

    Amazing doctors

  • @droidean
    @droidean 3 місяці тому

    Shit from the 60s slaps. The jazz track from the intro.

  • @eshec13
    @eshec13 13 років тому

    where did you get the narration?

  • @BrasilKid
    @BrasilKid 2 роки тому +1

    What science field is this? It sounds interesting enough to go to school for. Is it Organic Chemistry?

  • @MuhammadImran-bi6oc
    @MuhammadImran-bi6oc 8 років тому +2

    Great

  • @yusufalasmi8923
    @yusufalasmi8923 6 років тому +1

    who ever created this i want to thank them!!!!!!!!!!

  • @markcooper6436
    @markcooper6436 9 місяців тому

    Look, I appreciate the video upload, and it is obviously very well made. But the issue I have is that they glaze over things in the interest of time when it would only add a minute or 2 to the video length and complete the story better. As in, they don't go into what is in the solvent at all or what the further purification processes are? Plus, why no sound? Why not have some educated scientist explaining the process as the video plays? What you did do was well done but it just seemed incomplete. I actually double checked my T.V.s mute.

  • @edris.alkozi
    @edris.alkozi 7 років тому

    awesome

  • @Priyanka-dl3tc
    @Priyanka-dl3tc 3 роки тому +1

    I am watching this video in 2021 😯

  • @thinginground5179
    @thinginground5179 3 роки тому

    damn that intro music is a right tune..

  • @spiritual0129
    @spiritual0129 3 роки тому +1

    This is a typical high school/college film from the 60s. Their way of thinking was different back then. Today, it would clearly "offend" too many ppl.

    • @lilbank2521
      @lilbank2521 2 роки тому

      Why would it offend people?

  • @professionalcunt5966
    @professionalcunt5966 7 років тому +4

    Just imagine if he was allergic to it. It might never have been developed

  • @quenniefluppygamingz3161
    @quenniefluppygamingz3161 2 роки тому

    Wow..11 years ago...
    Older than me.

  • @mahalakshmivenkatesh1099
    @mahalakshmivenkatesh1099 3 роки тому

    Wow this video is uploaded before 10 years

  • @MadCapMag
    @MadCapMag Рік тому +1

    Worth remembering that the Allies didn’t share penicillin with the Axis powers, leading to the deaths of many civilians and young men who were soldiers just like our own.

  • @ytubeanon
    @ytubeanon 7 років тому

    9:25 I've never seen so many people so densely packed together, might be military.

  • @geneclart1
    @geneclart1 13 років тому

    Is this narrated by Attenborough?

  • @MUKESHKUMAR-wv9lg
    @MUKESHKUMAR-wv9lg 4 роки тому +2

    Great discovery in the 20 censury

  • @Capture.Castle
    @Capture.Castle 11 місяців тому

    Meanwhile, TV shows like Outlander and Sliders will have you convinced that you can recreate penicillin from the moldy food in your trash.

  • @joegallop7134
    @joegallop7134 11 років тому +1

    this music is fantastic! i wish i could play an instrument like that!!!!!!!!!

  • @omma8319
    @omma8319 12 років тому

    rolling in the grass we unravelling, all unravels, becoming rivers leading to you
    whose heart is the endless ember O
    you are the rainbow that scatters the known rise again and again, how many flowers are in me i wonder
    and we are the frolicsome hillsides the sun is your eye, with your vision we embrace
    we are dead and alive, in all lives, rejoiced, and remembered

  • @gaminginn6072
    @gaminginn6072 4 роки тому +1

    my hero

  •  6 років тому +3

    Best medicine is peniciline despite of all high price antibiotics.

    • @han436
      @han436 3 роки тому

      penisilin iyi bakteriye etkisi nedir hocsm

    • @ecentballer1
      @ecentballer1 3 роки тому

      I'm allergic too it 🤧

  • @Supreme7Minecraft
    @Supreme7Minecraft 12 років тому +1

    i never wrote this should i be worried??

  • @ClassicHolic
    @ClassicHolic 12 років тому +3

    wicked music

    • @paulriversred738
      @paulriversred738 2 роки тому

      Hey I'm from the future and I can say music hasn't changed maybe you can change it if you start now?

    • @inverted1057
      @inverted1057 2 роки тому

      @@paulriversred738 no

  • @almightytigress
    @almightytigress 12 років тому +7

    Me too!! I have a feeling we are in the same class. hahaha

  • @tristanbeilin7615
    @tristanbeilin7615 8 місяців тому

    don't you miss when these science documentaries were fun and interesting and had old timey sounding people narrating them?

  • @Supreme7Minecraft
    @Supreme7Minecraft 12 років тому

    I LIKE THE MUSIC :-D

  • @droidean
    @droidean 3 місяці тому

    Not sure if this was made for school classrooms, but if it was shout out to the man burning alive @ 7:04.

  • @NaNa-kj2gw
    @NaNa-kj2gw 5 років тому +1

    so jazzy

  • @Josie-_-
    @Josie-_- Рік тому +1

    Everyone: wow so interesting 🤔
    Me: holy shit there was a guy on fire

    • @SteelAtomic
      @SteelAtomic 6 місяців тому

      exactly what im thinking, im confused no one else pointed this out

  • @omma8319
    @omma8319 12 років тому

    Nehap meksa ni Aine donan sheriakse donen jehu bafrowes :P geluksfee!

  • @tominator1xdfgh
    @tominator1xdfgh 11 років тому

    Wow , his relative then!

  • @michaela9499
    @michaela9499 4 роки тому +3

    Poverty, disease, hunger --- the year 2020

  • @michaelanderson3096
    @michaelanderson3096 6 місяців тому

    I grew penecilium mold using vermiculite and Pink Buffalo spawn grains 😮.

  • @omma8319
    @omma8319 12 років тому

    we meditated and intuitively casted a series of smaller spells that
    eventually made up An It Harm None: the Fotamekus

  • @Kareemdinho10
    @Kareemdinho10 5 років тому +2

    Very pretty , even though the real
    original Discovery of Penicillin was made by costa rican Dr. Clodomiro Picado in 1923. member of the Pasteur Institute.

    • @user-yw8sr3uj1w
      @user-yw8sr3uj1w 4 роки тому

      Wheres your source of information?

    • @ulisesdeyes7043
      @ulisesdeyes7043 3 роки тому

      not true.

    • @Kareemdinho10
      @Kareemdinho10 3 роки тому

      @@ulisesdeyes7043 You are not adding anything here buddy. Only two words? You don even need that punctuation mark "period" , lol.

  • @sarahpurple6547
    @sarahpurple6547 2 роки тому

    ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

  • @sadikrady6066
    @sadikrady6066 3 роки тому

    بنسلين
    مادة تستخلص من العفن للتدواي

  • @antonjackson71
    @antonjackson71 5 років тому +1

    Usnea, oil of oregano and cannabis oil have been used for 1000s of years for their antibiotic properties. They also work better than patented pharmacist drugs for getting rid of infections. I wonder why doctors don't use these medicines anymore, it couldn't be the free trip to the Bahamas.

    • @jtm9945
      @jtm9945 4 роки тому +2

      I had a tooth abscess and used so many home remedies. Oregano and usnea oil both tried. Then I was giving amoxicillin and what do you know it went away. Home remedy’s don’t really work and that is still not understood.

    • @xpaperxcutx4588
      @xpaperxcutx4588 2 роки тому

      @@jtm9945 I know this comment is two years old but could it be because of antibiotic resistant? Maybe home remedies aren’t effective against more antibiotic resistant strain bacteria… remember, we’re always reminded that bacteria and viruses grow and mutate

    • @disgruntled6669
      @disgruntled6669 2 роки тому

      Peer reviewed research to back up this broad generalisation?

    • @markshort9098
      @markshort9098 9 місяців тому

      Yes other things were used as antibiotics but they didn't work anywhere near as well as penicillin which is why there was a sharp decline in the number of deaths when penicillin came out

  • @neurodope11
    @neurodope11 11 років тому

    skip the intro to 1:35

  • @bogartsandiego604
    @bogartsandiego604 3 роки тому

    So this legendary doctor saves my life for inventing these drugs.. Salute

  • @colombianflag717
    @colombianflag717 6 років тому +1

    Thanks to him we got antibiotics.

    • @ofwz
      @ofwz 6 років тому

      juan martinez did we

  • @2070ahmed
    @2070ahmed 3 роки тому +1

    7:05 very unnecessary footage

  • @skellingtonmeteoryballoon
    @skellingtonmeteoryballoon 3 місяці тому

    2:08

  • @3DRCGuy
    @3DRCGuy 7 років тому +1

    Howard Florey was Australian.

  • @sathyavanimaiya959
    @sathyavanimaiya959 Рік тому

    My neighbour /friend would say some people have reaction . 😍🥰😜🤣

  • @arteriacoronaria6058
    @arteriacoronaria6058 5 років тому +1

    In the past people would die from a paper cut

  • @formyself7757
    @formyself7757 4 роки тому +1

    im here because of dr stone

  • @darrenjamieson9711
    @darrenjamieson9711 3 роки тому +1

    Antibiotics were invented in 1943 by, yes you've guessed it, The British, but production was moved to USA, because of the proximity to Germany in WW2.

  • @CrazyCousins4Life11
    @CrazyCousins4Life11 12 років тому

    i learned about this in school

  • @stevennalley3095
    @stevennalley3095 10 років тому

    That was too funny!

  • @sanjayjadhav1373
    @sanjayjadhav1373 4 роки тому

    Anyone from cambridge

  • @kam7822
    @kam7822 2 роки тому

    the teacher told me to watch this in hes lesson

  • @joegallop7134
    @joegallop7134 11 років тому

    heyy

  • @meikikurniawan9182
    @meikikurniawan9182 4 роки тому +1

    02:05 albert einstein, is that you?

  • @Cespinozas
    @Cespinozas 4 роки тому +1

    Yes some straight bebop

  • @sosig1341
    @sosig1341 3 роки тому +1

    History lesson. Anyone?

  • @harujion4434
    @harujion4434 9 років тому

    Ew, didn't know bacteria moved so much.

  • @nonsensecrusade2741
    @nonsensecrusade2741 5 років тому

    im allergic :/

  • @HoneyBeauBeau
    @HoneyBeauBeau 10 років тому +6

    Too bad I am allergic to it and any derivative of that! LOL!

    • @mmmzzz229
      @mmmzzz229 8 років тому

      samm

    • @ytubeanon
      @ytubeanon 7 років тому

      r u also allergic to bread

    • @HoneyBeauBeau
      @HoneyBeauBeau 7 років тому +3

      ytubeanon If you're asking if I'm allergic to mold that grows on bread, yes. The thing is, usually any mild that grows on bread is not always penicillin or a member of its family. Also, it's a big enough dose for a reaction unless if you can see the mold. So I can still eat bread. I can't eat things like bleu cheese.

    • @jolez_4869
      @jolez_4869 6 років тому +1

      Rip when you get pneumonia

    • @liona6770
      @liona6770 5 років тому

      Yeah my mother is too

  • @johnhurford2846
    @johnhurford2846 11 років тому +5

    alexander fleming is my 7th cousin

  • @olly1793
    @olly1793 5 років тому

    I’m allergic to penicillin...

  • @meylin92
    @meylin92 12 років тому

    en españolll

  • @creedxgaminglive9466
    @creedxgaminglive9466 3 роки тому

    LEGEND ARE WATCHING 👀IN 2021 🤣🤣🤣