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Medical Marvels

Amazing But True
Doctors used to think that the heart was the body's centre of ...

An ear to the heart
Doctors use stethoscopes to listen to the heart and lungs. The first ...

See-through body
X-rays are used to look inside your body and take photographs of it. ...

Pins and needles?
Acupuncture is a type of treatment which relieves pain without using ...

Plant painkiller
Aspirin is one of the most commonly taken medicines of all. It ...

Saved from smallpox
Despite being discovered in 1796, Jenner's smallpox vaccine did not ...

DID YOU KNOW?
An American dentist, Horace Wells, used the first anaesthetics in ...

Miracle mould
Penicillin and other antibiotic drugs are widely used to treat ...