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The second millennium is over. The editors of the Journal first thought to ignore this passage. After all, the changing of the millennium would undoubtedly be the subject of incessant media attention. Why should we add to it? Yet, looking back, it is hard not to be moved by the astounding course of medical history over the past thousand years. No one alive in the year 1000 could possibly have imagined what was in store. Furthermore, medicine is one of the few spheres of human activity in which the purposes are unambiguously altruistic — in itself, a remarkable achievement.

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Elucidation of Human Anatomy and Physiology

Discovery of Cells and Their Substructures

Elucidation of the Chemistry of Life

Application of Statistics to Medicine

Development of Anesthesia

Discovery of the Relation of Microbes to Disease

Elucidation of Inheritance and Genetics

Knowledge of the Immune System

Development of Body Imaging

Discovery of Antimicrobial Agents

Development of Molecular Pharmacotherapy

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