
Dramatised stories of the founders of modern medicine. Until the 1840s, medicine had remained basically unchanged since the days of the ancient Greece. In the 60 years following it was transformed into a modern science.
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Air Date: 1974-09-18
In the 1840s, the Vienna General Hospital was one of the great centres of European medicine, yet many mothers died of...
Air Date: 1974-09-25
2: A Germ is Life by MARTIN WORTH In the small French town of Arbois stand the graves of Louis Pasteur's three young ...
Air Date: 1974-10-02
3: Men of Little Faith by JOHN WILES The early 1870s. Although a revolution is under way in the understanding of dise...
Air Date: 1974-10-09
4: Certain Death by BRUCE NORMAN On 6 July 1885 young Joseph Meister was brought to Pasteur's laboratory. He had been...
Air Date: 1974-10-16
5: The Tuberculin Affair by MARTIN WORTH 1890 was the year Germany was to play host to the world's most eminent docto...
Air Date: 1974-10-23
6: The Search for the Magic Bullet by MARTIN WORTH At the turn of the century two men, one in London, the other in Fr...