Catalogue des films de « Jean-Marie Pelt »
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10 films |
Auteur | France | 2004
This series helps us to discover the variety and inventiveness of plant life trying to win nature's ongoing struggle for survival. Using time-lapse photography techniques to let us witness extremely slow processes, this series is a welcome...
Auteur | France | 1994
The yew is in every way surprising : a plastic tree that can be clipped in the most fantastic ways (hedges, benches, pyramids, mazes, windmills !), it is also a poisonous tree with certain substances, taxol and taxotere, that have a therapeutic...
Auteur | France | 1994
Native to South America, the history of coca has its roots in the Pre-Colombian America. The leaves of coca, used from the beginning of time by the natives to take away the sensations of thirst, hunger, cold and fatigue, arrived in Europe at the...
Auteur | France | 1994
La coca, plante divine utilisée dans les rituels religieux, est à l’origine profondément liée au peuple Inca. Mais en 1850, la fabrication de la cocaïne, mise au point par un chimiste allemand à partir de la feuille de coca, en bouleverse...
Auteur | France | 1993
Mandragore, belladonna, henbiane (hyoscyamus) and thorn apple (datura). Four plants with multiple facets, they are magical, hallucinatory, medical and poison plants, all the same time. This is not only because they all belong to the same...
Auteur | France | 1993
The foxglove is the queen of cardiotonic plants. This film shows us, with many documents, the other cardiotonic plants – scylla, lily of the valley, oleander and the strophantus – and follows through the centuries the development of research...
Auteur | France | 1993
Quinine, extracted from the bark of the quinquina tree was the first efficient medecine in the history of malaria. It is still the common treatment for the disease. This is the history of this drug which is at the heart of a true adventure full...
Auteur | France | 1993
The ergot is a tiny mushroom parasite of ears of barley which has given rise to terrible epidemics with spectacular symptoms : gangrene of the limbs and attacks resembling epilepsy. The dezcription of this evil whose origin remained undiscovered...
Auteur | France | 1993
The poppy and the juice of its fruit were the first medecines against pain. Their story and that of their medical use is directly linked to that of the great periods of drug addiction. Brief historical reminders are given of the Opium Wars from...
Auteur | France | 1993
Using many documents and interviews with medical specialists this tells the story of aspirin from its extraction from the willow and meadow-sweet to its present use.
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