The History of Medicine
If you were sick in 1900, your doctor couldn't
do much more than help you be comfortable until your body conquered the illness,
or until the illness conquered you. The doctor had very little in his little
black bag, although he did carry, morphine and aspirin to ease pain, quinine to
fight off malaria, smallpox vaccine, and digitalis for heart failure.
Oh how that little
black bag has grown. Nowadays, we have medicine for almost every malady known
to man! If you had a cold back in 1800 they didn’t have medicine to make you feel
better. As for now, there are approximately 13,000 prescription
drugs on the market today, and several drugs can often be used to treat the
same condition.
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