Seasons & Episodes
EP 1
The Invisible Enemy
In the 1840s, the Vienna General Hospital was one of the great centres of European medicine, yet many mothers died of 'c
EP 2
A Germ is Life
2: A Germ is Life by MARTIN WORTH In the small French town of Arbois stand the graves of Louis Pasteur's three young dau
EP 3
Men of Little Faith
3: Men of Little Faith by JOHN WILES The early 1870s. Although a revolution is under way in the understanding of disease
EP 4
Certain Death
4: Certain Death by BRUCE NORMAN On 6 July 1885 young Joseph Meister was brought to Pasteur's laboratory. He had been sa
EP 5
The Tuberculin Affair
5: The Tuberculin Affair by MARTIN WORTH 1890 was the year Germany was to play host to the world's most eminent doctors
EP 6
The Search for the Magic Bullet
6: The Search for the Magic Bullet by MARTIN WORTH At the turn of the century two men, one in London, the other in Frank
