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Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine by Roy Porter
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“Of the thousands of medicaments in official use, few were truly effective: among these were quinine for malaria, opium as an analgesic, colchicum for gout, digitalis to stimulate the heart, amyl nitrate to dilate the arteries in angina and, introduced in 1896, the versatile aspirin.”
― Roy Porter, Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine
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