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Pain, Pus and Poison: The Search for Modern Medicines

Episode 1: Pain

Duration: 1 hour

on BBC Four

Available for years

Medical history series. Michael Mosley discovers what pain is and how we were able to control it with the discovery of morphine at the beginning of the 19th century. Show more

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