Pain, Pus and Poison: The Search for Modern Medicines (series)
- User score: 8
- Production country: United Kingdom
- Genre: Documentary
- Release date: 7/22/2013
- Release date of last episode: 8/5/2013
- Series status: Ended
- Seasons count: 1 ( List of episodes )
- Episodes count: 3
- Run time: 60 min.
Series description
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.