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Matters of Life and Death: 1: Healing Chemicals

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Professor Sir Alexander Fleming, F.R.S., discoverer of penicillin, introduces a series of programmes on modern medicine.
The first deals with the work of the bio-chemist and shows by film, laboratory experiment, and television microscope how new chemicals are discovered and used in the fight against disease.

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Presenter:
Sir Alexander Fleming
Programme written and arranged by:
Dr. H.O.J. Collier
Producer:
Andrew Miller Jones

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