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S01E04 - "Beating Infection"
Aired on Apr 21, 2007, 7:30 PM
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Episodes (1 Season · 4 Episodes)
Anaesthesia
Michael Mosley explores the work of the pioneering doctors who laid the foundations of modern medicine. He begins by charting the development of pain-free surgery.
Mar 31, 2007
60 min
Discovering Vaccines
Michael Mosley explores how pioneering doctors learnt to harness the immune system by exposing themselves to incurable diseases like rabies, typhoid and polio.
Apr 7, 2007
60 min
Diet and Disease
Dr Michael Mosley explores the lengths to which pioneering doctors have gone to uncover the connections between what we eat and what we die from.
Apr 14, 2007
60 min
Beating Infection
Michael Mosley looks at how doctors came to understand infectious diseases by deliberately infecting themselves with conditions such syphilis and yellow fever.
Apr 21, 2007
60 min
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