How to Ask For and Get Anything You Want & How Medicine Has Changed in 100 Years
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What Is the History of Modern Medicine?
A lot of the drugs that were common in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were, as you say, they are based on old tradition. One of them is digitalis, which is derived from the fox glove. Is a very useful drug in a particularly congestive heart disease. And sometimes you see that the action of a drug, as written about, was basically derived from very ancient medicine. Ye, it's really fascinating to hear these stories. It's just amazing what the human body can do, what it can endure, and how it can repair itself. Yes, it'sreally extraordinary.
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