How the Victorians Built Britain S02E05 - How Britain Healed The World

Michael Buerk discovers how bold Victorian experiments and cathedrals of medicine built Britain and revolutionised the medical world. He begins in Edinburgh with murderers Burke and Hare, revealing the gruesome roots of modern anatomy and the macabre justice dolled out for those caught flaunting the system. He then travels to the operating theatre of Old St Thomas' Hospital in London for a hands-on lesson in Victorian surgery.