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Find key developments in the field of medicine, from the birth of Hippocrates to today. 460 BCE Birth of Hippocrates, Greek physician and founder of the first university. Considered the father…Brewer's: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: E
E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z E. E.G. E Pluribus Unum Eager Eagle Eagle-stones Ear Ear-finger Ear-marked…Jerry Quarry Biography
Jerry QuarryAge: 53 popular heavyweight boxer who fought former champions Floyd Patterson and Muhammad Ali; earned $2.1 million as a top contender in the 1960s and 70s; fought Ali when he…Erich Segal Biography
writer and scholarBorn: June 16, 1937Died: January 9, 2010 (London, England) Best Known as: author of Love Story Segal is best known for writing Love Story…David Reimer 2004 Deaths
David ReimerAge: 38 subject of a medical experiment who was born a boy but raised as a girl. After a botched circumcision, Reimer was castrated, given female hormones, and renamed Brenda. His…Alfred William LAMB, Congress, MO (1824-1888)
LAMB Alfred William , a Representative from Missouri; born in Stamford, Delaware County, N.Y., March 18, 1824; moved with his parents to Ralls County, Mo., in 1836; attended Doctor Ely's school…Aesop's Fables: The Travellers and the Plane-Tree
by Aesop The Sick Man and the DoctorThe Flea and the OxThe Travellers and the Plane-Tree Two Travellers were walking along a bare and dusty road in the heat of a summer's day. Coming…Pharmacy Assistant
Charles Patterson Tell us about your work---what do you do? I type , fill, and interpret prescriptions in an outpatient pharmacy…Lillian Gilbreth
Name at birth: Lillian Evelyn MollerLillian Gilbreth was an engineer, psychologist and inventor who helped revolutionize the workplace and the home kitchen. She was most notably an "efficiency expert…Rod Steiger
Name at birth: Rodney SteigerRod Steiger won the 1967 Academy Award for playing a bigoted Mississippi cop opposite Sidney Poitier's black Philadelphia cop in the film In the Heat of the Night.…