In Pain, Pus & Poison, Dr. Michael Mosley tells the extraordinary story of how scientists learnt to use the world around us to heal our bodies and conquer the common afflictions of pain, pus and poison. He explores how certain chemicals – once invisible and almost magical in their effects - were discovered, captured, understood and finally exploited. In the three-part series, Michael discovers how a crisis in the French wine industry led to the discovery of what actually causes disease; how a German scientist obsessed with colour found the world's first targeted drug and how, if it weren't for a group of Oxford scientists and American industrialists, penicillin - the most powerful life-saving drug the world has ever seen - might have remained no more than a lab curiosity.
Show Info
Network: BBC Four
(2013 -
2013)
Schedule: Mondays at 20:30
(60 min)
Status: Ended
Show Type:
Documentary
Genres:
NatureMedical
Episodes ordered: 3 episodes
Official site: www.bbc.co.uk
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Previous Episode
Poison
Episode 1x03; Aug 5, 2013
Dr. Michael Mosley explores how scientists went from finding antidotes to poisons to applying poisons as cures, a story that encompasses the planet's most deadly substances.