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Dramatised stories of the founders of modern medicine. Until the 1840s, medicine had remained basically unchanged since the days of the ancient Greece. In the 60 years following it was transformed into a modern science.
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The Invisible Enemy
56 min
In the 1840s, the Vienna General Hospital was one of the great centres of European medicine, yet many mothers died of 'childbed fever'. Ignaz Semmelweis set out to find the origin.
A Germ is Life
56 min
2: A Germ is Life by MARTIN WORTH In the small French town of Arbois stand the graves of Louis Pasteur's three young daughters. Two had died from typhoid, one from an inoperable tumour - a stark reminder of the background to his struggle to find the cause of disease. Music composed by DUDLEY SIMPSON Producer PETER GOODCHILD Director PETER JONES
Men of Little Faith
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3: Men of Little Faith by JOHN WILES The early 1870s. Although a revolution is under way in the understanding of disease, ignorance and opposition to the new ideas exist at all levels. Can Pasteur or Koch find a practical outcome of their experiments that will convince the sceptics? Music composed by DUDLEY SIMPSON Film editor ROY FRY Producer PETER GOODCHILD Director PETER JONES