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World Service,09 Apr 1999,4 mins

How Antibiotics Revolutionised Healthcare

My Century

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Margaret Broadly became a nurse at the Royal London Hospital in 1923. She remembers nursing before the introduction of antibiotics when all that could be done was to feed patients well and make sure they had plenty of rest. She says "There was nothing else at all" that could be done. The introduction of antibiotics from the early 1940s changed nursing completely.

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