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What is a Medicine and explain two important of medicine

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Medicines are chemicals or compounds used to cure, halt, or prevent disease; ease symptoms; or help in the diagnosis of illnesses. Advances in medicines have enabled doctors to cure many diseases and save lives. These days, medicines come from a variety of sources.

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Polio vaccine

Aspirin

Morphine

Smallpox vaccine

Insulin – 1922.

Penicillin – 1942.

Are all very important medicines

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Answer: Medicine is the science or practice of the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease (in technical use often taken to exclude surgery).

Two things make a drug important: First, that the drug is or was used to treat a large number of people with a range of problems

And second, because a drug has led the way, showing it is possible to treat a disease. These drugs spurred the pharmaceutical industry to further research and innovation. If you don't have a starting drug, you don't know what is possible -- and you can't take it on from there.
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