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Pain, Pus & Poison: The Search for Modern Medicines

★ 8.5 174 votes 2013–2013 1 season · 3 episodes Ended BBC Four
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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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Season 12013
8.45733h
Michael Mosley tells the story of the creation of our most useful and valuable drugs.
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1Pain8.4
2260 min
▶2Pus8.6
1960 min
▶3Poison8.2
1660 min

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Cast

Michael Mosley Self - Presenter
Druin Burch Self - Author 'Taking the Medicine'
Walter Sneader Self - Former Head of the School of Pharmacy, University of Strathclyde
Thomas Frieden Self - DIrector, Center for Disease Control and Prevention
John Whitaker Self - Wakefield Museum
Andrea Sella Self - Department of Chemistry, University College London
Jayne Lawrence Self - Royal Pharmaceutical Society
John Fenn Self - Yale University
Stephanie Snow Self - Centre for History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester
Jonathan Simon Self - Historian, University of Leon

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