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“The word medicine is derived from the Latin ars medicine, meaning the art of healing.”
Medicine is the art and science of healing as practiced by physicians and similar professionals and encompasses all sciences related to it. It is the applied science or practice of the diagnosis, treatment and preventions of diseases. It is a variety of health care practices involved in to maintain and restore health by preventing and treatment of different sickness in human beings, and some time animals. Medicine applies to science health, biomedical research, and medical technology to treat the injury and disease, usually using medication and sometimes surgery, sometimes they use in therapies.[1]
Medicine comes from the Greek God Asclepius. Asclepius is the Greek God of Medicine and Healing in ancient Greek Religion. He represents the healing accepts of the medical arts to his daughter’s; Hygeia (she is the goddess and personifications of health and cleanness.); and IA so the goddess of recuperation from illness. Aceso the Goddess of the healing process. Algae the goddess of healing process. HE is the reason from the Greeks that medicine is on the world and that humans are able to heal.[2]
Benadryl is an allergy medicine marketed over the counter, made by Johnson and Johnson subsidiary McNeil Consumer HealthCare. Benadryl first came out in 2007;Bendryl was marketed by Pfizer Consumer Healthcare. It was invented by George Rieveschl and made publicly available through Prescription.[3]
Dr. George Rieveschl was born in 1916 and died in September 27, 2007. He was an American chemist and professor. He was the inventor of the popular that acts against Diphenhydramine,(itching, red eyes, and ect.). He was the first made during a search for synthetic alternatives to scopolamine.[4]
Benadryl is a medication that is in the medication that is known as a antihistamines. It used for different reasons. It can be used to treat insomnia, sneezing and runny

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