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