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Transplant
30/30 In 1967, Christiaan Barnard performed the first heart transplant operation.
The Crippler
29/30 Andrew traces the impact of the great polio epidemics and the ethical dilemmas they posed.
Free at the Point of Need
28/30 The National Health Service was set up in 1948 to provide free healthcare for everyone.
It Looks Like a Miracle
27/30 The first antibiotic, penicillin, appeared to be a miracle medicine.
You Are What You Eat
26/30 How medics discovered that the absence of a vitamin could be the cause of a disease.
Near Pavilions
25/30 The influence of Florence Nightingale and the sanitarians.
Flinging the tropics open to civilisation
24/30 What role did European medicine play in spreading European culture across the Empire?
The ministry of healing
23/30 Needing to consult laboratory workers was seen as a threat to physicians' authority.
Transforming Plague
22/30 When bubonic plague broke out in Hong Kong in 1894, European rivalry continued.
Culturing the germ theory
21/30 How a country doctor from Prussia traced the life cycle of an anthrax bacteria cell.
