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Horizon
BBC Two

S34E14: The Man Who Lost his Body

Horizon · 1997
Aired 16 Oct 1997 at 8:00pm (UTC)

Synopsis

Looks at Ian Waterman, who at 19 caught a virus that destroyed half of his nervous system and who, in spite of medical assertions that he would never walk, feed or move again, managed by sheer will-power to get back some mobility. Examines the question of how far the brain can over-ride disease or physical problems.

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