S2E5:How Britain Healed the World

How the Victorians Built Britain

4 Jan 202043 minTV-PG

As the industrial revolution began, and Britain moved into the Victorian era, disease was rife. The mildest ailment could prove to be a death sentence and the cure could often be as deadly as the illness. But Michael Buerk discovers how bold Victorian health experiments and great cathedrals dedicated to medicine transformed Britain and revolutionized the medical world.