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  <dc:title>Interview with Patricia Horne</dc:title>
  <dc:description>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.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>December 2012 - February 2013</dc:date>
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