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Discovery of penicillin | Pain, Pus and Poison: The Search for Modern Medicine
Fleming initially discovered the antibacterial properties of mould that would lead to the disc...
Pain message | Pain, Pus and Poison: The Search for Modern Medicine
Painkillers act at different points along the pain pathways to turn the pain response down.
1: Black Death | World's Worst Century
Was the 14th century the worst time in history to be alive? The population of Britain was ravaged by a plague that drove mankind to th...
1: Into the Brain | Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery
Documentary series looking at the brutal, bloody and dangerous history of surgery begins with the area of the body w...
1: Medicine, Religion and Natural Causes | History File
This programme looks at ancient Egypt, Hippocrates, Christianity and Islam.
1: Nerves of Steel | The Courage to Fail
1830 - a smoke-filled room, crowded with spectators. Their eyes are fixed on a man, restrained on a wooden table, with a leg ravaged...
1: The Showmen | The Anatomists
Series on the history, psychology and philosophy of anatomy, to coincide with a major exhibition coming to London.
19: 1954: Living Longer | People's Century
Medical advances allow people to live longer and healthier lives. Penicillin is developed in time to save lives during the Second ...
2: Bad Blood: Stuarts to Hanoverians | Fit to Rule: How Royal Illness Changed History
Lucy Worsley explores how the health of monarchs has shaped the nation. She looks at th...
2: Bleeding Hearts | Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery
The series about the history of surgery charts the development of heart surgery. Michael Mosley witnesses a breatht...
2: Into the Heart | The Courage to Fail
Crippled children, blue and breathless with congenital heart disease, were sent home to die. Operating on the inside of the heart was...
2: Pus | Pain, Pus and Poison: The Search for Modern Medicines
Dr Michael Mosley explores our earliest attempts to tackle infection and how scientists, chemists and doctors ...
2: The Bodysnatchers | The Anatomists
3: A Modern Frankenstien | The Anatomists
3: Brave New World | Pandemic 2020
From the Amazon to churches in the US and the slums of Delhi, reason and science battle conspiracy and denial.
3: Doers Not Thinkers | The Courage to Fail
By the early 1970s, surgeons were riding the crest of a wave. But controversy and uncertainty surrounded one of the commonest ope...
3: Happy Families: Hanoverians to Windsors | Fit to Rule: How Royal Illness Changed History
Lucy Worsley explores how the health of monarchs has shaped the nation. She explo...
3: Medicine and Government | History File
Using historical evidence to recreate 19th century life this programme looks at the relationship between government and medicine an...
3: Scientists | Icons
Chris examines the lives of Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Alan Turing and Tu You You. He explores some of their most famous discoveries - as well as th...
3: The Great Famine and the Black Death | Michael Wood's Story of England
Michael Wood's portrait of one village across the whole of English history reaches the 14th century...
4: A Gift of Life | The Courage to Fail
Richard Herrick, a young man dying of kidney disease, is about to make medical history. Surgeons will save his life by transplanting ...
4: Fixing Faces | Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery
Series about the history of surgery continues with a look at the development of plastic surgery, which started over 40...
Impact of nature on physical and mental health | Just One Thing - with Michael Mosley
Michael Mosley discusses the importance of spending time in nature and how this can imp...
The complexity of brain surgery | Inside the Human Body
A little girl, Angelina, requires complex brain surgery in order to alleviate the systoms she is suffering as a resul...
Treating diabetes with an artificial pancreas | Trust Me, I'm a Doctor
In this clip we discover what diabetes is and a new way of treating the condition compared to the trad...
Amino acids and sweetcorn | The Secrets of Your Food
James explains what our amino acids are and how a certain type of sweetcorn can be a good source for them.
The disadvantages of broad-spectrum antibiotics | Michael Mosley vs The Superbugs
Michael Mosley explains and illustrates how the use of broad-spectrum antibiotics can lead ...
Sleep | The Truth About...
We are one of the most sleep-deprived countries in the world. In The Truth About Sleep, insomniac Michael Mosley finds out what happens if we don'...
The Wonderful World Of Blood - With Michael Mosley
Michael Mosley gives up a fifth of his own blood to perform six bold experiments. From starving it of oxygen to injecting ...
Inside Porton Down: Britain's Secret Weapons Research Facility
Michael Mosley investigates Porton Down, Britain's most secretive and controversial military research base. He...
The 1890s | The Victorian Slum
A group of people move into a recreated Victorian slum. The slum dwellers have moved into the 1890s, when Britain was slowly recovering from a...
Childhood experience and violent crime | The Mystery of Murder: A Horizon Guide
Scientists explain how different childhood experiences and socialisation can lead to an indiv...
1: The First 8 Weeks | Countdown to Life: The Extraordinary Making of You
Michael Mosley presents the story of how you were made, in a series produced in partnership with Th...
Infested! Living with Parasites
Dr Michael Mosley explores the bizarre and fascinating world of parasites by turning his body into a living laboratory and deliberately infes...
How respiratory viruses spread | Winter Viruses and How to Beat Them
An explanation of how respiratory viruses can spread by causing us to cough and sneeze.
The large intestine | Guts: The Strange and Wonderful World of the Human Stomach
A camera travels through the last part of the digestive system and explores the role of the ...
Exercise and fat intake | Horizon
Michael Mosley eats the same Scottish breakfast he had yesterday, but this time he went for a long walk the night before. This time the fat...
John Watson and Little Albert | The Brain: A Secret History
Dr Michael Mosley discusses how John Watson performed one of the most famous and controversial experiments in psy...
6: Who Are We? | The Story of Science: Power, Proof and Passion
The twin sciences of brain anatomy and psychology have offered different visions of who we are. Now these sci...
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