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Medicine Atlas is a cross-referenced encyclopedia of medicine, from specialties, treatments, and discoveries to hospitals, healers, and beyond. Search any treatment and follow its threads through every body of knowledge behind it.

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Anesthesiology
1 link
Ayurveda
1 link
Cardiology
2 links
Dermatology
1 link
Emergency Medicine
2 links
Endocrinology
7 links
Epidemiology
11 links
Family Medicine
1 link
Gastroenterology
3 links
Genetics
5 links
Immunology
7 links
Infectious Disease
14 links
Internal Medicine
7 links
Medical Genetics
3 links
Neurology
4 links
Neuroscience
6 links
Neurosurgery
5 links
Obstetrics and Gynecology
6 links
Oncology
2 links
Ophthalmology
3 links
Orthopedic Surgery
4 links
Otolaryngology
2 links
Pathology
4 links
Pediatrics
1 link
Preventive Medicine
1 link
Psychiatry
6 links
Public Health
3 links
Pulmonology
2 links
Radiology
3 links
Rheumatology
2 links
Surgery
8 links
Traditional Chinese Medicine
4 links
Unani Medicine
2 links
Urology
1 link
Virology
7 links

Discoveries

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Anesthesia
2 links
Blood Groups
2 links
Development of the Polio Vaccine
6 links
Discovery of Antisepsis
3 links
Discovery of Helicobacter pylori as a Cause of Peptic Ulcer Disease
7 links
Discovery of Streptomycin
5 links
Discovery of the Circulation of the Blood
3 links
Discovery of the Rh Factor
3 links
Discovery of Vitamins and Deficiency Diseases
6 links
Germ Theory of Disease
8 links
Identification of the Malaria Parasite
3 links
Invention of the Electrocardiograph
2 links
Isolation of HIV
3 links
Isolation of Insulin
6 links
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
5 links
Penicillin
2 links
Structure of DNA
3 links
Vaccination
5 links
X-rays
5 links

Treatments

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Anesthesia
6 links
Antibiotics
6 links
Antimalarial Therapy
3 links
Antiretroviral Therapy
2 links
Antisepsis
4 links
Blood Transfusion
2 links
Bloodletting
8 links
Caesarean Section
1 link
Cataract Surgery
4 links
Chemotherapy
2 links
Dialysis
3 links
Electroconvulsive Therapy
4 links
Hip Replacement Surgery
2 links
In Vitro Fertilization
4 links
Insulin Therapy
5 links
Oral Rehydration Therapy
5 links
Organ Transplantation
2 links
Physical Therapy
2 links
Radiotherapy
2 links
Statin Therapy
3 links
Trepanation
3 links
Vaccination
7 links
Variolation
3 links

Healers

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Akira Endo
2 links
Albert Sabin
4 links
Albert Schatz
3 links
Albert Schweitzer
1 link
Alexander Fleming
1 link
Alfred Blalock
1 link
Alois Alzheimer
1 link
Andreas Vesalius
3 links
Anthony Fauci
1 link
Barry Marshall
4 links
Camillo Golgi
1 link
Charles Best
4 links
Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
3 links
Christiaan Barnard
1 link
Christiaan Eijkman
4 links
Clara Barton
1 link
Crawford Long
2 links
Dorothea Dix
1 link
Edward Jenner
7 links
Elizabeth Blackwell
1 link
Florence Nightingale
2 links
Frederick Banting
4 links
Frederick Gowland Hopkins
3 links
Galen
4 links
Harold Himsworth
2 links
Harvey Cushing
1 link
Hippocrates
4 links
Horace Wells
2 links
Howard Florey
1 link
Ibn Sina
3 links
Ignaz Semmelweis
1 link
Jean Purdy
3 links
Jean-Martin Charcot
1 link
John Charnley
3 links
John Hunter
1 link
John Snow
3 links
Jonas Salk
4 links
Joseph Lister
3 links
Karl Landsteiner
4 links
Louis Pasteur
6 links
Lucio Bini
4 links
Mary Seacole
1 link
Michael DeBakey
1 link
Norman Bethune
1 link
Paracelsus
1 link
Patrick Steptoe
4 links
Paul Ehrlich
1 link
Rene Laennec
1 link
Richard Bright
2 links
Robert Edwards
5 links
Robert Koch
8 links
Robin Warren
4 links
Ronald Ross
1 link
Rudolf Virchow
1 link
Samuel Wilks
2 links
Selman Waksman
3 links
Sigmund Freud
1 link
Sushruta
1 link
Theodor Schwann
1 link
Tu Youyou
3 links
Ugo Cerletti
4 links
Virginia Apgar
1 link
Vivien Thomas
1 link
Walter Reed
1 link
Willem Einthoven
3 links
Willem Kolff
3 links
William Harvey
2 links
William Morton
3 links
William Osler
1 link

Institutions

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American Medical Association
1 link
Bimaristan al-Mansuri
2 links
Bimaristan al-Nuri
4 links
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
2 links
Charite - Universitatsmedizin Berlin
1 link
Doctors Without Borders
3 links
Hotel-Dieu de Paris
1 link
Johns Hopkins Medicine
2 links
Karolinska Institute
3 links
Massachusetts General Hospital
3 links
Mayo Clinic
2 links
National Health Service
2 links
National Institutes of Health
1 link
Pasteur Institute
4 links
Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital
3 links
Red Cross Movement
2 links
Robert Koch Institute
6 links
Rockefeller University
3 links
Royal College of Physicians
2 links
Royal College of Surgeons of England
2 links
Schola Medica Salernitana
1 link
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
2 links
Wellcome Trust
3 links
World Health Organization
3 links

Conditions

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Arthritis
7 links
Asthma
5 links
Bacterial Infection
6 links
Cancer
6 links
Cardiovascular Disease
5 links
Cataracts
3 links
Cholera
7 links
Chronic Kidney Disease
3 links
Colon Cancer
1 link
Depression
5 links
Diabetes Mellitus
4 links
HIV/AIDS
3 links
Influenza
3 links
Malaria
6 links
Nephrotic Syndrome
2 links
Poliomyelitis
3 links
Smallpox
5 links
Tuberculosis
5 links
Type 2 Diabetes
2 links
Ulcerative Colitis
2 links

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