1 - Interview with Caoimhghin Breathnach

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1 - Interview with Caoimhghin Breathnach

Transcript of an interview conducted by Ida Milne with Professor Caoimhghin Breathnach, a retired physician. In the interview Dr Breathnach talked about a wide range of topics, including: - his medical education at University College Dublin and experience as a student in the Mater Misercordiae Hospital, Dublin; - conditions in Dublin during the Second World War; - experiences working in St Kevin's Hospital [later St James' Hospital], Cork Street Fever Hospital, and Rialto Hospital (all in Dublin); - scarlet fever, whooping cough, pneumonia and poliomyelitis in Cork Street Fever Hospital; - memories of Dr Christopher Joseph McSweeney, Medical Superintendent in Cork Street Fever Hospital; - recollections of Dr Noel Browne, Minister for Health, 1948-1951; - the introduction of antibiotics; - time as a lecturer in University College Cork and University College Dublin; - time spent on a post-doctoral fellowship in physiology in the USA; - involvement in the History of Medicine section of the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland; - research in the field of history of medicine following retirement from University College Dublin; - developments in radiology and biochemistry during his lifetime; - immunisation programmes against diphtheria and poliomyelitis; - use of barbiturates in treatment.

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Reference Number: LMH/1

Date: 8 February 2013

Creator Name: Breathnach, Caoimhghin, b.1923

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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