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1918: Weight Gaining Pills

Over the years there have been many ‘strange’ medicines and products aimed at making the human body more desirable, This

These days there’s pressure put on smokers to give up; there’s legislation coming out reasonably regularly to limit exposure to

A quiz about Edward Jenner and his vaccine for Smallpox. Edward Jenner is known as the father of immunology. His

On 14th May 1796 Edward Jenner administered the first smallpox vaccine. Jenner had got the idea from innoculations using cowpox.

Government and Medicine: A Brief History The role of Government in the history of medicine through time is a look

Hippocrates and his Big Ideas Hippocrates is one of the most significant figures in the history of medicine. Despite living