John Hunter conducts the first study of disease in a controlled experiment | Medical Mavericks
John Hunter conducted the first study of disease in a controlled experiment, with the infection of gonorrhoea.
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Clip Info
- Clip length: 4'20''
- Broadcast year: 2007
Curriculum Connection
- History | Medicine in Britain, c1000-present | c1700-c1900: Medicine in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain | Approaches to prevention and treatment
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Content
- Provider: BBC
- Channel: BBC Four
- Programme: Medical Mavericks
- Series: 1
- Episode: Beating Infection
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