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Pain, Pus and Poison: The Search for Modern Medicines

Episode 2: Pus

Duration: 1 hour

on BBC Four

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Dr Michael Mosley explores our earliest attempts to tackle infection and how scientists, chemists and doctors from Louis Pasteur to Howard Florey helped us win the battle. Show more

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