Film Review: Now Walks Like Others

摘要

It would be easy to believe that effective medical care for indigent children with physical difficulties at the turn of the twentieth century was virtually non-existent in the United Kingdom. At a time before the discovery, widespread adoption, and use of antibiotics, when instances of both infectious disease and illness from malnutrition were quite high, what could doctors be expected to do for young patients even if those patients did have access to hospitals? With the short documentary film , Dr Andrew N. Williams (BA, MSc, PhD, MRCP, MRCPCH, FRHistS) seeks to educate viewers about the availability and effectiveness of therapeutic care for poor children in Northampton in the early decades of the twentieth century.