Release Date: July 29, 2013
Pain, Pus and Poison: The Search for Modern Medicines
1080p
2013
Published on, 1 year ago
Pain, Pus and Poison: The Search for Modern Medicines
Pus 1 Season 2 Episode
60 min
2013
Published on, 1 year ago
Infection can take over the entire human body, and if our immune systems aren't strong enough we will die - in fact, infectious disease has regularly wiped out millions of people across the planet. Dr Michael Mosley explores our earliest attempts to tackle infection and reveals the moment we began to harness the power of microbes to fight back. This is the story of how scientists, chemists and doctors helped us win the battle, from Louis Pasteur to Howard Florey, and how a small team of dedicated men and women wiped out one of mankind's deadliest diseases - smallpox.
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