history of science

Ideal Patients, 1896–Present

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A Smiling Garden, 1558

A Woman of Firsts, Early 20th Century

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Deathly Displays, circa 1662–1731

Poet of the Sea, 1940s–1950s

Modern Synthesis, 1937

HEEL PRICK

Heel Prick, 1957

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Bovine Inoculations, circa 1870s

original artificial intelligence

Machine, Learning, 1951

From Chemical Weapon to Chemotherapy, 1917–1946

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How Chromosomes X and Y Got Their Names, 1891

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