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BBC Four 2013 1 season 3 eps Ended

Pain, Pus and Poison: The Search for Modern Medicines

2013 1 season 3 eps

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Season 1

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Season 1

60 min

S1 · E1 Jul 22, 2013

Pain Episode 1

Pain has a profound effect on our bodies - when we are experiencing it, millions of nerve cells deep within our brains are firing, telling us 'it hurts' - and for centuries the challenge has been to find something that will lessen or even switch off these sensations to bring us relief. Dr Michael Mosley discovers just what pain is, why we want to control it and how we ultimately did it when the discovery of morphine, the world's first pharmaceutical, at the beginning of the 19th century led to a 200-year journey of scientific breakthrough, discovery and self-experimentation.

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60 min

S1 · E2 Jul 29, 2013

Pus Episode 2

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.

8.1 · You

60 min

S1 · E3 Aug 5, 2013

Poison Episode 3

Dr Michael Mosley ends the series with a look at poisons, exploring the turning points when scientists went from finding antidotes to poisons to applying poisons as a cure - celebrating the eccentrics and mavericks whose breakthroughs were to pave the way for some of the most striking treatments of modern medicine. Of the medicines explored in this series, those that are derived from poisons are perhaps the most extraordinary. The story of turning poisons into medicines encompasses the planet's most deadly substances, in which we turned killers into cures.

7.9 · You

3 episodes in Season 1

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In this "entertaining medical series" (The Sunday Times, U.K.), Dr. Michael Mosley shows how drugs have revolutionized medicine and changed the course of human history. Unfolding over a period of 200 years, it's an extraordinary tale of daring, self-experimentation, revelation, genius, and outright luck.

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Cast

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Michael Mosley

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Ben Crichton

Director

Alex Freeman

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Giles Harrison

Executive producer

Tina Fletcher-Hill

Total runtime 3h 0m · Episode length 60 min · Type Documentary

Show info

Premiered

July 22, 2013

Final episode

August 5, 2013

Status

Ended

Network

BBC Four

Country

United Kingdom

Type

Documentary

Episode length

60 min

Total runtime

3h 0m

Original language

English

Production

United Kingdom

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English

Some details come from TheTVDB.

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