Medical Mavericks

Dr Michael Mosley explores how pioneering doctors laid the foundations of modern medicine.

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Returning Series

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Medical Mavericks

First Air Date

June 17, 2008

Last Air Date

July 8, 2008

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BBC Four

S01E04

Beating Infection

Michael Mosley looks at how doctors came to understand infectious diseases by deliberately infecting themselves with conditions such syphilis and yellow fever.

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