Boldly going where no science show has gone before.

The Naked Scientists.

Hello and welcome to the Naked Scientists with me Dr Cat and with a lovely Diana O' Carroll.

Hello!

While Chris is off swanning round in sunny South Africa,

oh it's such a hard life for him,

we're stuck here in Chile Cambridge.

Coming up on the show we'll be finding out how scientists have developed a way to

test if the relatives of someone with bowel cancer may be at risk of the

disease themselves. We'll find out how researchers have designed a new DNA code,

and finally, not waving, but recharging.

How nanogenerators could help you charge up your phone just by waving your arms around. All that and more coming up later.

This week on the show we're looking at the history of medicine. We may complain about the

National Health Service today but things used to be much worse a couple of hundred years ago.

In the late 18th and early 19th century, body snatching was big business.

Certain taverns, the fortune of war opposite St Bartholomew's Hospital,

the bricklayers arms in Lambeth became

notorious as the haunt of resurrection gangs and anyone venturing into the cellar

for an illicit pint might find themselves in less lively company than they bargained for.

From the early anatomical ideas of the Romans to the medical history being made today,

via the Canterbury Tales and Galileo's eyeballs, we'll be taking a stroll through the annals of medicine

here on the Naked Scientists.

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