← Back to Home
Pain, Pus and Poison: The Search for Modern Medicines

Show Info

  • Status: Ended
  • First Aired: July 22, 2013
  • Seasons: 1
  • Episodes: 3
  • Networks: BBC Four
  • Genres: Documentary
IMDb

Where to Watch

We couldn't find any streaming providers for this show in your region.

Pain, Pus and Poison: The Search for Modern Medicines(2013)

TMDB Rating: 8.0 (1 votes)

Overview

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.

Loading...

Loading episode ratings...

This may take a moment for shows with many seasons.

Season 1 Poster

Season 1

3 episodes • 2013

#EpisodeAir DateRating
1PainJul 22, 20130.0
2PusJul 29, 20130.0
3PoisonAug 5, 20130.0

Related Shows

The Truth About Food
8.0

The Truth About Food

2007

Series examining how what we eat can change our lives.

Celebrity Fit Club UK
N/A

Celebrity Fit Club UK

2002

Celebrity Fit Club is a reality television series that follows eight overweight celebrities as they try to lose weight for charity. Split into two competing teams of four, each week teams are given different physical challenges, and weighed to see if they reached their target weights. They are monitored and supervised by a team that includes a nutritionist, a psychologist, and a physical trainer, the latter of which is former U.S. Marine Harvey Walden IV.

Victorian Pharmacy
10.0

Victorian Pharmacy

2010

Victorian Pharmacy is a historical documentary TV series in four parts, first shown on BBC Two in July 2010. It was made for the BBC by independent production company Lion Television. It was filmed at Blists Hill Victorian Town in Shropshire. It is a historical documentary that looks at life in the 19th Century and how people attempted to cure common ailments. Since some of the ingredients of Victorian remedies are now either illegal or known to be dangerous, Nick Barber often uses his modern pharmaceutical knowledge to produce similar products without those ingredients. The other main presenters are Tom Quick, a PhD student, and Ruth Goodman, a domestic historian who also appeared in Tales from the Green Valley, Victorian Farm and Edwardian Farm.

Body Invaders
N/A

Body Invaders

2012

No description available.

Příběhy moderní medicíny
N/A

Příběhy moderní medicíny

2016

No description available.

Body Atlas
8.0

Body Atlas

1999

Explore the mysterious regions inside the human body. See how vital organs interconnect to make human life possible. Learn how skeletons fit together. Witness the lightness and strength of bone, how muscles work as levers, what it takes to achieve the "perfect" body. See how the heart functions, and learn the roles of white and red blood cells. Discover the complex systems controlling breathing, digestion, glandular changes, and hearing.

Fatal Experiments: The Downfall of a Supersurgeon
10.0

Fatal Experiments: The Downfall of a Supersurgeon

2016

The series investigates Paolo Macchiarini’s claims to have invented a ground-breaking method to create new organs. His method using plastic tracheas sown with stemcells has been operated on patients in the US, Russia, Sweden and the UK. So far, unfortunately, the track record of his plastic organs is not very good. Almost all patients are dead. And several of his former surgeon colleagues in Sweden claim that not only does the method not work, but that his scientific claim to fame is based on falsified and misrepresented data. Some even claim that his patients have been used as human guinea-pigs.

Michael Mosley's Science of You
N/A

Michael Mosley's Science of You

2011

Journalist, Physician, Producer, TV Presenter – Michael Mosley is a multi-talented communicator of bold and original ideas. With insight, intelligence and passion, the creator of the landmark series Inside the Human Body takes you on a fascinating journey through the mysterious worlds of biology and medicine.

La macchina meravigliosa
10.0

La macchina meravigliosa

1990

A long journey in 8 episodes to discover the human body, with Piero Angela who closely observes our organism, focusing each time on a theme: the eye, the ear, taste and smell, the stomach and the intestine, liver, bones, lungs and heart. How does our "wonder machine" work? To make each explanation direct and clear, the program uses films, animations and photographs developed with the scanning electron microscope.

The Body in Question
8.0

The Body in Question

1978

The Body in Question is a landmark British medical documentary series of 13 shows made for the BBC. It was a groundbreaking show, being the first to ever televise an autopsy (in the final show on 29 Jan 1979). Dr Jonathan Miller considers the functioning of the body as a subject of private experience. He explores our attitudes towards our bodies, our ignorance of them, and our inability to read our body's signals. The first episode starts with vox populi asking where various organs in the body are located. By the final episode we are left in no doubt. Taking as his starting point the experience of pain, Dr Miller analyses the elaborate social process of "falling ill", considers the physical foundations of "disease" and looks at the types of individuals humankind has historically attributed with the power of healing. The series was nominated for two 1979 BAFTAs: Best Factual Television Series and Most Original Programme/Series.

Toxique
N/A

Toxique

2007

No description available.

Easy Ways to Live Well
N/A

Easy Ways to Live Well

2020

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Steph McGovern reveal the easy life fixes we can all use to dramatically improve our diet, fitness and mental well-being.

Remaking American Medicine
N/A

Remaking American Medicine

2006

Examining the quality crisis in our health-care system and exploring innovative solutions, this four-part PBS documentary provides a comprehensive look at the state of medicine in America today. Topics include patient safety, medical and medication mistakes, hospital-acquired infections, family-centered care and effective management of chronic disease. Moving personal stories highlight the problems and the people who are working to solve them.

Origins: The Journey of Humankind
6.3

Origins: The Journey of Humankind

2017

Hosted by Jason Silva, Origins: The Journey of Humankind rewinds all the way back to the beginning and traces the innovations that made us modern.

The Brain: A Secret History
N/A

The Brain: A Secret History

2011

Michael Mosley embarks on three journeys to understand science's last great frontier - the human mind - as he traces the history of the attempts to understand and manipulate the brain.

Embarrassing Bodies Kids
N/A

Embarrassing Bodies Kids

2010

No description available.

The Bad Skin Clinic
9.0

The Bad Skin Clinic

2019

Dr Emma Craythorne and her team of experts are on a mission to solve complex skin conditions. They help people whose lives have been impeded by devastating disorders and they hope Emma and their team have the solution.

Keep On Dancing
N/A

Keep On Dancing

2022

Myf Warhurst hosts this two-part special, following nine older Australians over a 12-week experiment exploring the power of dance for people over the age of 65.

24 Hours Inside Your Body
8.0

24 Hours Inside Your Body

2017

Two everyday citizens are fitted with the latest medical tech and analysed for over a 24-hour period. When it comes to the sick and injured, a dearth of data is there for the taking. The modern hospital is stocked with a growing array of gizmos and gadgets that help medical professionals diagnose and monitor what ails the patient. But what happens when you take the latest medical tech out of the ward and into the lives of those with no immediate need to visit a hospital?

Česko na drogách
N/A

Česko na drogách

2024

No description available.