Pain, Pus and Poison
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- Episode
- Episode 3 - Poison
- Broadcast Info
- 2013 (59 mins)
- Description
- Michael ends the series with a look at poisons, exploring the incredible turning points when we went from finding antidotes to poisons, to applying them as a cure - celebrating the eccentrics and mavericks whose breakthroughs were to pave the way for some of the most striking treatments of modern medicine. Of the medicines explored in this series, those that are derived from poisons are perhaps the most extraordinary. The story of turning poisons into medicines encompasses the planet’s most deadly substances, in which we turned killers into cures.
- Genre
- Medicine; Biology
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The Open University, "Pain, Pus and Poison". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ou/search/index.php/prog/83546 (Accessed 11 Jan 2025)