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Pain, Pus and Poison: The Search for Modern Medicines

Episode 3: Poison

Duration: 1 hour

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Dr Michael Mosley explores how scientists went from finding antidotes to poisons to applying poisons as cures, a story that encompasses the planet's most deadly substances. Show more

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