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History of medicine

  • History of medicineArchaeologists uncovered psychoactive psilocybin mushrooms in a 6000 BCE Sahara cave, suggesting early humans used fungi for altered states or healing.
  • History of penicillinIn 1895, Vincenzo Tiberio, an Italian physician at the University of Naples, published research on moulds found in a water well in Arzano.
  • Sweating sicknessHenry VII arrived in London on the 28th of August 1485. The disease broke out there on the 19th of September that same year.