Dr Michael Mosley explores how pioneering doctors laid the foundations of modern medicine.
Where to Watch Season 1
4 Episodes
Anaesthesia
E1
AnaesthesiaMichael 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.
Discovering Vaccines
E2
Discovering VaccinesMichael Mosley explores how pioneering doctors learnt to harness the immune system by exposing themselves to incurable diseases like rabies, typhoid and polio.
Diet and Disease
E3
Diet and DiseaseDr Michael Mosley explores the lengths to which pioneering doctors have gone to uncover the connections between what we eat and what we die from.
Beating Infection
E4
Beating InfectionMichael Mosley looks at how doctors came to understand infectious diseases by deliberately infecting themselves with conditions such syphilis and yellow fever.
Cast of Season 1
Michael MosleySelf - Presenter / Writer
Alison GregoryProducer
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