7 - Interview with Patricia Horne

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7 - Interview with Patricia Horne

Transcript of two interviews conducted by Ida Milne with Dr Patricia Horne, a retired physician. In the interview Dr Horne talked about a wide range of topics, including: - her early life and family, such as her grandfather Dr Andrew Horne (co-founder of the National Maternity Hospital), father Dr Andrew Horne (who served at Gallipoli in the First World War), and mother Dr Delia Horne (née Mockler); - medical education in University College Dublin; - experience of working in the Mater Misercordiae Hospital, Dublin; Temple Street Children's Hospital, Dublin; and Cashel County Hospital, County Tipperary; - time spent working with the Medical Missionaries of Mary in Nsukka, Nigeria. Dr Horne talks about childbirth, symphysiotomies, malaria, yaws, and tuberculosis in Nigeria; - periods spent working in Zambia and Kenya; - improvements in anaesthesia; - the advent of antibiotics and medical and psychiatric drugs; - use of quinine in Africa; - the generations of medics in her family.

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Reference Number: LMH/7

Date: December 2012 - February 2013

Creator Name: Horne, Patricia

Creator Name: Milne, Ida

Copyright: Free to use under the terms of the Creative Commons Licence Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)

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