Microbes and Men
Rated 6.02 votes19741 season56m
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.
- Created by
- Peter Goodchild
- First aired
- Sep 18, 1974
- Status
- Ended
- Network
- BBC Two
- Episodes
- 6
- Country
- GB
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S1 E1: The Invisible Enemy
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S1 E1 The Invisible Enemy
Sep 18, 1974In the 1840s, the Vienna General Hospital was one of the great centres of European medicine, yet many mothers died of 'childbed fever'. Ignaz Semmelweis set out to find the origin.
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