Pain, Pus & Poison: The Search for Modern Medicines

In Pain, Pus And 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.


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  • Pain, Pus & Poison
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  • TheTVDB.com Series ID 271705
  • Status Ended
  • First Aired July 22, 2013
  • Recent August 5, 2013
  • Airs Monday, at 8:30pm
  • Network BBC Four
  • Average Runtime 60 minutes
  • Genres Documentary
  • Original Country Great Britain
  • Original Language English
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  • Episode Screenshot Format 16:9 Screencap
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  • Created July 21, 2013 by
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Name Number of Episodes Dates
Giles Harrison 1 08/05/2013
Alex Freeman 1 07/22/2013
Ben Crichton 1 07/29/2013

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