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World Service,28 May 2001,13 mins

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In the 1930s there was no known treatment for bacterial diseases. Sulphonamides made the chemical treatment of infection a universal reality. Professor Tilli Tansey OBE of the History of Modern Medical Sciences at Queen Mary explains.

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