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immunization; vaccination
Rh hemolytic disease
Platelet
classes of antibodies
interferon
atherosclerosis
flat keloid
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prosthesis
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Benjamin Rush
Benjamin Rush
United States statesman and physician
Broussais, François-Joseph-Victor
François-Joseph-Victor Broussais
French physician
Jean-Baptiste-André Dumas, engraving, 1879
Jean-Baptiste-André Dumas
French chemist
Sir Frederick Grant Banting.
Sir Frederick Grant Banting
Canadian physician
George Redmayne Murray
British physician
Robert Remak
German scientist
Philip Showalter Hench.
Philip Showalter Hench
American physician
George Richards Minot
George Richards Minot
American physician
Leonard Colebrook
British medical researcher
George H. Whipple
George H. Whipple
American pathologist
William P. Murphy
American physician
Best
Charles H. Best
American physiologist
Lydia Maria Adams DeWitt
American pathologist
Simon Flexner
American pathologist and bacteriologist
Asclepiades Of Bithynia
Greek physician

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