A six-part series on the men who conquered disease.
1: The Invisible Enemy by MARTIN WORTH
In 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 cause of this disease.
Music composed by DUDLEY SIMPSON Designer DEREK DODD
Cameraman NAT CROSBY Film editor DAN RAE
Producer PETER GOODCHILD Director JOHN GLENISTER
Book, Microbes and Men. £2.50, from bookshops (available next month)