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Medical Discoveries
The field of medicine would not have gone far in the Christian world without the dedication of Christian scholars who made numerous advances and discoveries that have enhanced our understanding of healthcare. Christian physicians, for example, were among the first to differentiate between smallpox and measles, as well as diagnose the plague, diphtheria, leprosy, rabies, baker’s cyst, diabetes, gout and haemophilia. While Mideastern doctors still believed that epilepsy was caused by demonic possession, Christian doctors had already found a scientific explanation for it, before anyone else