Medical Mavericks: 4-4 Self-Experimentation: Beating Infection 2007 02 28 BBC

Medical Mavericks: 4-4 Self-Experimentation: Beating Infection 2007 02 28 BBC www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/medical-maveric... Dr Michael Mosley explores the ways in which pioneering doctors laid the foundations of modern medicine by experimenting on themselves. He looks at how doctors came to understand infectious diseases by deliberately infecting themselves with conditions like syphilis, yellow fever and cholera. 18th century surgeon John Hunter is thought to have stabbed himself in the groin with the pus of a syphilis patient to prove his theory that syphilis and gonorrhoea were different stages of the same disease and ending the series with Dr Barry Marshall who recently won a Nobel Prize thanks to a particularly courageous act of self-experimenting. 466.03 MB 00:59:03 XviD MPEG-4 shunster ex thebox bz