This drug was first discovered as part of a herbal remedy in 1775 by William Withering, after he asked a local Romani woman how she managed to cure his patient's heart condition.

This branch of medicine has its nursing roots in the 1850s during the Crimean war, but has its modern roots in the 1952 Copenhagen Polio epidemic for its use of iron lungs.

This potent anti-hypertensive drug was first discovered in the venom of Bothrops jararaca, a venomous snake.

First described in the Edwin Smith Papyrus found in Egypt in 3000 BC, this branch of medicine takes its roots from the Latin word for Crab.

This soporific drug was found safe for human consumption by Serturnur in the early 1800s, after he took a small quantity of salt for a severe toothache and experienced significant pain relief.

This branch of medicine was founded by Guillaume de Baillou, after he described the phenomenon of respiratory illnesses causing painful maladies of the body.

This sedative drug was discovered on the 4th of December, 1863 by Johan Baeyer, and was named after Saint Barbara, the patron saint of artillery men.

This branch of medicine was founded by Dame Cicely Saunders in 1967, after she introduced the concept of "Total Pain", to include the spiritual, physical, emotional and social dimensions of distress.

This class of chemotherapy drugs for lymphoma was discovered by Alfred Gilman and Louis Goodman after studying nitrogen mustard gases during World War 2.

This branch of medicine has its roots in an idea born from the minds of Louis Pasteur, Paul Ehrlich, Emil Von Behring and many others, to describe a system that protected the body from attacks by micro-organisms.