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Medical Detectives

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The last of three true stories of investigations in the field of pathology, dramatised by Michael Butt from The Ghost Disease and Other Stories by Michael Howell and Peter Ford. That Last Infirmity. Charged with unravelling the tangle of folk tales and bad science obscuring the causes of yellow fever in Cuba in 1898, Carroll and Lazear resort to extreme methods.
Director John Taylor Repeat

Contributors

Dramatised By:
Michael Butt
Stories By:
Michael Howell
Stories By:
Peter Ford.
Director:
John Taylor
James Carroll:
Colin Stinton
Jesse Lazear:
William Hope
Major Reed:
Peter Marinker
General Steinberg:
Ed Bishop
Mrs Lazear:
Bufty Davis
Dr Carlos Finlay:
Peter Banks
Trooper Thompson:
Paul Birchard
Source: Radio Times

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