Medicine - History News Author:Phil Gates History News: Medicine presents in newspaper format the stories of breakthroughs in medicine in many different cultures and lands from the year 8000 B.C. to the 1990s. — History as you've never read it before! Wince as the world's first plastic surgeon sticks on a new wax nose 2,500 years ago! Clean it up! Wash ... more »away the horrors of army hospitals in 1854 with Florence Nightingale! Learn how antibiotics were discovered in a moldy dish!« less