1830 - a smoke-filled room, crowded with spectators. Their eyes are fixed on a man, restrained on a wooden table, with a leg ravaged...
Dr Michael Mosley explores our earliest attempts to tackle infection and how scientists, chemists and doctors ...
Lucy Worsley explores how the health of monarchs has shaped the nation. She explo...
Using historical evidence to recreate 19th century life this programme looks at the relationship between government and medicine an...
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...
Philippa Stewart, biographer of Florence Nightingale, narrates her life story through on-location reports from places she live...
Programme concentrates on looking at medicine and surgery, and looks at the rise of surgery and inventions such as X-rays, the stethos...
The principal of the germ theory of disease is credited to Louis Pasteur. But why was it taken up and acted on, so ...
Film following the life of an extraordinary woman, a trailblazer who revolutionised modern nursing and reformed healthcare at home and ...
Isaac Newton - brilliant rational mathematician or master of the occult? This innovative biography reveals Newton as both a hermit and a tyra...
Lucy Worsley investigates Queen Anne's gynaecological record.
How did George's mental illness change Britain? Lucy Worsley uncovers Royal papers and explores how the attempt on h...
Paul McGann investigates how Victorian scientists were developing theories about ways to prevent biological and social d...
Lucy Worsley explores the physical health and appearance of William and Mary through a study of...
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