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The atomic hypothesis, first formulated around 500 years B.C., was without influence on medicine, when empiricism was at a stage compared to superstition. Hippocrates, the master of Cos Island, and 600 years later Galen, in Rome, were the most famous men in medicine.
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Schapira, G. (1989). The Adventure of Molecules in Pathology. In: Maruani, J. (eds) Molecules in Physics, Chemistry, and Biology. Topics in Molecular Organization and Engineering, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1173-4_5
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