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
Licence: ERA Licence required
Free to watch for UK schools, colleges and universities with an ERA Licence
UK only
Staff and students of licensed education establishments only
Cannot be adapted
Add Notes
More clips from Medical Mavericks
Developing a vaccine for Typhoid | Medical Mavericks
Developing a vaccine for Typhoid | Medical Mavericks
Dr Michael Mosley investigates typhoid and the development of a vaccine to prevent it.
Developing a vaccine for Typhoid | Medical Mavericks
Developing a vaccine for Typhoid | Medical Mavericks
Dr Michael Mosley investigates typhoid and the development of a vaccine to prevent it.
Developing a vaccine for Typhoid | Medical Mavericks
Developing a vaccine for Typhoid | Medical Mavericks
Dr Michael Mosley investigates typhoid and the development of a vaccine to prevent it.
Developing a vaccine for Typhoid | Medical Mavericks
Developing a vaccine for Typhoid | Medical Mavericks
Dr Michael Mosley investigates typhoid and the development of a vaccine to prevent it.
Developing a vaccine for Typhoid | Medical Mavericks
Developing a vaccine for Typhoid | Medical Mavericks
Dr Michael Mosley investigates typhoid and the development of a vaccine to prevent it.
Developing a vaccine for Typhoid | Medical Mavericks
Developing a vaccine for Typhoid | Medical Mavericks
Dr Michael Mosley investigates typhoid and the development of a vaccine to prevent it.
Developing a vaccine for Typhoid | Medical Mavericks
Developing a vaccine for Typhoid | Medical Mavericks
Dr Michael Mosley investigates typhoid and the development of a vaccine to prevent it.
Developing a vaccine for Typhoid | Medical Mavericks
Developing a vaccine for Typhoid | Medical Mavericks
Dr Michael Mosley investigates typhoid and the development of a vaccine to prevent it.
More resources about History of Medicine
05: Bloody Beginnings | Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery
05: Bloody Beginnings | Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery
Michael Mosley looks at how surgery dragged itself kicking and screaming out of the dark ages, transforming itse...
01: Black Death | World's Worst Century
01: Black Death | World's Worst Century
Was the 14th century the worst time in history to be alive? The population of Britain was ravaged by a plague that drove mankind to t...
02: Pus | Pain, Pus and Poison: The Search for Modern Medicines
02: Pus | Pain, Pus and Poison: The Search for Modern Medicines
Dr Michael Mosley explores our earliest attempts to tackle infection and how scientists, chemists and doctors...
The Story of John Snow | Moments of Genius
The Story of John Snow | Moments of Genius
Clinical geneticist Professor John Burn follows in the footsteps of one of his great scientific heroes - Dr John Snow.
The Great Plague
The Great Plague
The Great Plague of 1665 killed 100,000 Londoners - one in three of the people living in the city. While kept diaries have provided terrifying testaments to...
The doctor who discovered how cholera spread | Witness History
The doctor who discovered how cholera spread | Witness History
In the 1800s cholera was a mysterious disease killing millions around the world. No-one knew how to stop it ti...
Black Death | Ken Follett's Journey Into the Dark Ages
Black Death | Ken Follett's Journey Into the Dark Ages
Ken Follett tells the story of the Black Death through the true stories of a monk in Winchester, a doctor in Florence ...
Jenner's Marvellous Medicine | A History of the World
Jenner's Marvellous Medicine | A History of the World
Professor Mark Horton tells the epic story of the world's greatest medical discovery. Edward Jenner's vaccination for s...
Florence Nightingale: Nursing Pioneer
Florence Nightingale: Nursing Pioneer
Film following the life of an extraordinary woman, a trailblazer who revolutionised modern nursing and reformed healthcare at home and ...
04: Fixing Faces | Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery
04: Fixing Faces | Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery
Series about the history of surgery continues with a look at the development of plastic surgery, which started over 4...
S01E05: King Death | A History of Britain by Simon Schama
S01E05: King Death | A History of Britain by Simon Schama
Simon Schama continues his look at British history with the Black Death, the horror of medieval Britain. Those it d...
02: Bad Blood: Stuarts to Hanoverians | Fit to Rule: How Royal Illness Changed History
02: Bad Blood: Stuarts to Hanoverians | Fit to Rule: How Royal Illness Changed History
Lucy Worsley explores how the health of monarchs has shaped the nation. She looks at t...
Breaking the Mould: The Story of Penicillin
Breaking the Mould: The Story of Penicillin
History books tell us that Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin, but that's not the whole story. This drama uncovers the forgo...
03: Scientists | Icons
03: Scientists | Icons
Chris examines the lives of Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Alan Turing and Tu You You. He explores some of their most famous discoveries - as well as t...
Discovery of penicillin | Pain, Pus and Poison: The Search for Modern Medicine
Discovery of penicillin | Pain, Pus and Poison: The Search for Modern Medicine
Fleming initially discovered the antibacterial properties of mould that would lead to the disc...
Medicine Through Time (1989): 01: Medicine, Religion and Natural Causes | History File
Medicine Through Time (1989): 01: Medicine, Religion and Natural Causes | History File
This programme looks at ancient Egypt, Hippocrates, Christianity and Islam.
Medicine Through Time (1998): 03: Medicine and Government | History File
Medicine Through Time (1998): 03: Medicine and Government | History File
Using historical evidence to recreate 19th century life this programme looks at the relationship bet...
Medicine Through Time (1989): 05: Medicine, Technology and The Individual | History File
Medicine Through Time (1989): 05: Medicine, Technology and The Individual | History File
The principal of the germ theory of disease is credited to Louis Pasteur. But why wa...
Medicine Through Time (1998): 04: Medicine and War | History File
Medicine Through Time (1998): 04: Medicine and War | History File
This prog looks at the relationship between medicine and war. Does war help or hinder medicine? Surviving r...
Medicine Through Time (1998): 05: Medicine and Surgery | History File
Medicine Through Time (1998): 05: Medicine and Surgery | History File
Programme concentrates on looking at medicine and surgery, and looks at the rise of surgery and inventi...
More from Michael Mosley
02: Bleeding Hearts | Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery
02: Bleeding Hearts | Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery
The series about the history of surgery charts the development of heart surgery. Michael Mosley witnesses a breath...
Impact of nature on physical and mental health | Just One Thing - with Michael Mosley
Impact of nature on physical and mental health | Just One Thing - with Michael Mosley
Michael Mosley discusses the importance of spending time in nature and how this can imp...
The complexity of brain surgery | Inside the Human Body
The complexity of brain surgery | Inside the Human Body
A little girl, Angelina, requires complex brain surgery in order to alleviate the systoms she is suffering as a resul...
Treating diabetes with an artificial pancreas | Trust Me, I'm a Doctor
Treating diabetes with an artificial pancreas | Trust Me, I'm a Doctor
In this clip we discover what diabetes is and a new way of treating the condition compared to the trad...
The rise of antibiotic resistant bacteria | Michael Mosley vs The Superbugs
The rise of antibiotic resistant bacteria | Michael Mosley vs The Superbugs
Michael Mosley introduces the problem of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and Superbugs.
03: Food on the Brain | The Secrets of Your Food
03: Food on the Brain | The Secrets of Your Food
Michael Mosley and James Wong explore the effect that our food has on our most important and, in terms of energy consumption...
Sleep | The Truth About...
Sleep | The Truth About...
We are one of the most sleep-deprived countries in the world. In The Truth About Sleep, insomniac Michael Mosley finds out what happens if we don'...
The Wonderful World of Blood - with Michael Mosley
The Wonderful World of Blood - with Michael Mosley
Michael Mosley gives up a fifth of his own blood to perform six bold experiments. From starving it of oxygen to injecting ...
Inside Porton Down: Britain's Secret Weapons Research Facility
Inside Porton Down: Britain's Secret Weapons Research Facility
Michael Mosley investigates Porton Down, Britain's most secretive and controversial military research base. He...
The 1860s | The Victorian Slum
The 1860s | The Victorian Slum
A group of 21st-century people move into a recreated Victorian slum. In this episode, the slum dwellers move into the 1860s, when London was t...
Early biological theories of aggression | The Mystery of Murder: A Horizon Guide
Early biological theories of aggression | The Mystery of Murder: A Horizon Guide
Lombrosso's early ideas about the biological basis for criminal behaviour and the subsequent...
03: The Final Push | Countdown to Life: The Extraordinary Making of You
03: The Final Push | Countdown to Life: The Extraordinary Making of You
A look at the final months in the womb, when cartilage hardens to form the skeleton. Produced in part...
Is Your Brain Male or Female? | Horizon
Is Your Brain Male or Female? | Horizon
Dr Michael Mosley and Professor Alice Roberts investigate whether male and female brains really are wired differently.
Infested! Living with Parasites
Infested! Living with Parasites
Dr Michael Mosley explores the bizarre and fascinating world of parasites by turning his body into a living laboratory and deliberately infes...
Discovery of penicillin | Pain, Pus and Poison: The Search for Modern Medicine
Discovery of penicillin | Pain, Pus and Poison: The Search for Modern Medicine
Fleming initially discovered the antibacterial properties of mould that would lead to the disc...
01: Pain | Pain, Pus and Poison: The Search for Modern Medicines
01: Pain | Pain, Pus and Poison: The Search for Modern Medicines
Michael Mosley discovers what pain is and how we were able to control it with the discovery of morphine at t...
How respiratory viruses spread | Winter Viruses and How to Beat Them
How respiratory viruses spread | Winter Viruses and How to Beat Them
An explanation of how respiratory viruses can spread by causing us to cough and sneeze.
Digestive powers | Guts: The Strange and Wonderful World of the Human Stomach
Digestive powers | Guts: The Strange and Wonderful World of the Human Stomach
The digestive powers of the gastric juices within the human stomach are tested.
John Watson and Little Albert | The Brain: A Secret History
John Watson and Little Albert | The Brain: A Secret History
Dr Michael Mosley discusses how John Watson performed one of the most famous and controversial experiments in psy...
04: Can We Have Unlimited Power? | The Story of Science: Power, Proof and Passion
04: Can We Have Unlimited Power? | The Story of Science: Power, Proof and Passion
Michael Mosley shows how the most power-hungry generation that has ever lived has harnessed...