Medicine in modern Britain has seen great advances in the 20th and 21st centuries as technology developed and the government became more involved in the health of the British people.
Part of HistoryMedicine in Britain, c.1250 to the present day
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Watch an animated summary of medical progress from the 20th century to the present day, outlining the huge medical breakthroughs that helped develop our understanding of illness today.