Pain, Pus and Poison: The Search for Modern Medicines

Original title: Pain, Pus and Poison: The Search for Modern Medicines

60 minutes • 2013 - 2013 • 1 season • 3 episodes • 8.0 Score

In this "entertaining medical series" (The Sunday Times, U.K.), Dr. Michael Mosley shows how drugs have revolutionized medicine and changed the course of human history. Unfolding over a period of 200 years, it's an extraordinary tale of daring, self-experimentation, revelation, genius, and outright luck.

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