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[Hi, I'm Thomas Calabro] The clinic named for these doctors began as part of St. Mary's Hospital in Rochester, Minnesota

In 1873 Charles Henry Phillips coined this name for his new liquid laxative

From the Greek for "to stir up", the first of these to be isolated was epinephrine

In 1999 the FDA approved Xenical, a pill that stops the body from absorbing 30% of this that a person eats

It's what Louis Pasteur used to kill bacteria in his process now known as pasteurization

Testing this anesthetic on himself, Sir Humphry Davy found it made him dizzy & euphoric

Originally used to check for flaws in machine parts, this device was first used on pregnant women in the 1950s

This procedure to correct myopia was first performed in Japan in 1955

S. Weir Mitchell invented the rest cure, pioneered post-trauma research & analyzed this U.S. snake's venom

In the 17th C. Thomas Wharton realized there are endocrine as well as exocrine types of these