Antibiotics
The Infinite Monkey Cage
BBC
4.7 • 9.4K Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2018
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Antibiotics Brian Cox and Robin Ince are joined by comedian Chris Addison, Chief Medical Officer, Dame Sally Davies, and Professor Martha Clokie to look at the history and future for antibiotics.
Producer: Alexandra Feachem.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the BBC. |
| 0:03.2 | Hello, I'm Robyn Hanks. |
| 0:04.2 | And I'm Brian Cox. |
| 0:05.2 | Today we are talking about health, |
| 0:07.4 | which is a lot more interesting to me than it is to Brian, |
| 0:10.2 | because I am a human, |
| 0:11.8 | and therefore may well become ill, |
| 0:13.4 | where is he is a replicant that was made in Switzerland? |
| 0:16.6 | And is only poorly if we have to reboot him |
| 0:19.6 | when he's just there going, |
| 0:20.6 | Wonderfoot... Wonderfoot... |
| 0:22.2 | Wonderfoot... Wonderfoot... |
| 0:23.8 | Wonderfoot... |
| 0:24.6 | For... |
| 0:26.0 | Now, medicine has moved on. |
| 0:29.0 | Medicine has moved on a lot in the last hundred years. |
| 0:31.8 | The best cure for being ill used to be leeches, |
| 0:34.8 | cutting and newt spit, |
| 0:36.6 | in which I really mean the best cure for being ill was to kill you, |
| 0:40.4 | because then you didn't have flu anymore. |
| 0:42.0 | You were merely dead. |
| 0:43.2 | This is why homeopathy was a relative success, actually, |
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