Synopsis
Dr Michael Mosley discusses the Story of Louis Pasteur vaccinating Joseph Meister against Rabies.
- Programme: Medical Mavericks
- Series: 1
- Episode: Discovering Vaccines
- Channel: BBC Four
- Broadcast year: 2007
- History | Medicine in Britain, c1000-present | c1700-c1900: Medicine in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain | Approaches to prevention and treatment
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