Pain, Pus and Poison: The Search for Modern Medicines

Name: Pain, Pus and Poison: The Search for Modern Medicines
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2013-07-22
Rating: 7.5
Cast: Michael Mosley

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Documentary

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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StatusEnded

First AiredJuly 22, 2013

Last AiredAugust 5, 2013

Episode Runtime1sa

Seasons1

Episodes3

TypeDocumentary

Origin CountryUnited Kingdom

Original LanguageEnglish

Spoken LanguagesEnglish

Keywords

medicine health medical education

Networks

Last Episode

S1 E3 • 8/5/2013

Poison

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.