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How Antibiotics Revolutionised Healthcare
Good food and rest was the only treatment for patients with infections before the 1940s
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.
