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Culturing the Germ Theory

How a country doctor from Prussia traced the life cycle of an anthrax bacteria cell.

• 15 mins

Transforming Plague

When bubonic plague broke out in Hong Kong in 1894, European rivalry continued.

• 15 mins

The Ministry of Healing

Needing to consult laboratory workers was seen as a threat to physicians' authority.

• 15 mins

Flinging the Tropics Open to Civilisation

What role did European medicine play in spreading European culture across the Empire?

• 15 mins

Near Pavilions

The influence of Florence Nightingale and the sanitarians.

• 15 mins

You Are What You Eat

How medics discovered that the absence of a vitamin could be the cause of a disease.

• 15 mins

It Looks Like a Miracle

The first antibiotic, penicillin, appeared to be a miracle medicine.

• 15 mins

Free at the Point of Need

The National Health Service was set up in 1948 to provide free healthcare for everyone.

• 15 mins

The Crippler

Andrew traces the impact of the great polio epidemics and the ethical dilemmas they posed.

• 15 mins

Transplant

In 1967, Christiaan Barnard performed the first heart transplant operation.

• 15 mins