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In the British colonies, medicine was rudimentary for the first few generations, as few upper-class British physicians emigrated to the colonies. The first medical society was organized in Boston in 1735.
In 1801 American-born physician Samuel Stearns published The American Herbal or Materia Medica, in which he expounded on the medical uses of indigenous American flora for readers on both sides of the Atlantic.[xx] But before this point, European medical thought dominated American medical practice.
1849 – Elizabeth Blackwell is the first woman to gain a medical degree in the United States. 1850 – Female Medical College of Pennsylvania (later Woman's Medical College ), the first medical college in the world to grant degrees to women, is founded in Philadelphia.
Lysol was created in 1889 by Gustav Raupenstrauch. The disinfectant’s early formula included cresol which was reported to cause inflammation, burning, and death. In the early 1920s, the company that made the disinfectant, Lehn & Fink, aggressively marketed the product to American wives.
To understand why we take so many pills, we need to understand the history of medicinal drugs; from the herbal remedies of the middle ages to the pills produced by "Big Pharma" today, illicit drugs or well-known legal medication, like statins and Viagra, they have all played a part in the drug culture of modern medicine.
The earliest known use of the noun hilarity is in the mid 1500s. OED's earliest evidence for hilarity is from 1568, in the writing of Gilbert Skeyne, physician.
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Where and when: Mesopotamia, 4000BC; China and Europe, 400BC. What it is: Originally, willow bark was chewed to fight fever and inflammation. Willow bark is now commercially available as capsules, powder, or raw bark and is said to treat headaches, inflammation, pain from osteoarthritis, and lower back pain.
