Microbes and Men — Season 1, Episode 1: The Invisible Enemy
Drama • 56 min • 1 season, 6 episodes • ★ 6.0/10
Episode synopsis
In the 1840s, the Vienna General Hospital was one of the great centres of European medicine, yet many mothers died of 'childbed fever'. Ignaz Semmelweis set out to find the origin.
About Microbes and Men
Dramatised stories of the founders of modern medicine. Until the 1840s, medicine had remained basically unchanged since the days of the ancient Greece. In the 60 years following it was transformed into a modern science.