Microbes and Men
Dramatised stories of the founders of modern medicine. Until the 1840s, medicine had remained basically unchanged since the days of the ancient Greece. In the 60 years following it was transformed into a modern science.
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Dramatised stories of the founders of modern medicine. Until the 1840s, medicine had remained basically unchanged since the days of the ancient Greece. In the 60 years following it was transformed into a modern science.
- Ep 1
1.The Invisible Enemy
18-09-197456mIn the 1840s, the Vienna General Hospital was one of the great centres of European medicine, yet many mothers died of 'childbed fever'. Ignaz Semmelweis set out to find the origin.
- Ep 2
2.A Germ is Life
25-09-197456m2: A Germ is Life by MARTIN WORTH In the small French town of Arbois stand the graves of Louis Pasteur's three young daughters. Two had died from typhoid, one from an inoperable tu...
- Ep 3
3.Men of Little Faith
02-10-197456m3: Men of Little Faith by JOHN WILES The early 1870s. Although a revolution is under way in the understanding of disease, ignorance and opposition to the new ideas exist at all lev...
- Ep 4
4.Certain Death
09-10-197456m4: Certain Death by BRUCE NORMAN On 6 July 1885 young Joseph Meister was brought to Pasteur's laboratory. He had been savaged by a rabid dog and bitten 14 times. Death from rabies...
- Ep 5
5.The Tuberculin Affair
16-10-197456m5: The Tuberculin Affair by MARTIN WORTH 1890 was the year Germany was to play host to the world's most eminent doctors at an International Congress. For eight years Koch had been...
- Ep 6
6.The Search for the Magic Bullet
23-10-197456m6: The Search for the Magic Bullet by MARTIN WORTH At the turn of the century two men, one in London, the other in Frankfurt, were embarking on research which each hoped would prov...
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