Medicine

       Interestingly, you don't often see medicine in a list of great inventions of the world.  It certainly belongs way up there among the top.  Medicine is not just great for today's measles, chicken pox, clogged arteries and heart disease, think what would have happened if the AIDS epidemic happened in the 14th century as did the bubonic plague which killed 75 million people before it ran its course, totally unmedicated.  AIDS would have had the opportunity to do at least as much damage then and now if it weren't for the dedicated scientists and their research to find a way to at least control the epidemic, if not end it.  Enitre populations of indigenous South Americans were wiped out by measles in the 15th and 16th centuries.   That would not have happened in the 20th century, and the history of the world would have been altered.

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