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1	Major depressive disorder	17,427
2	Lobotomy	8,898
3	Placebo	5,316
4	Idiosyncrasy	2,840
5	Mood disorder	2,559
6	Gray's Anatomy	2,462
7	Laudanum	2,058
8	Apothecary	1,875
9	History of LSD	1,751
10	Asclepius	1,696
11	History of medicine	1,297
12	Bloodletting	1,191
13	Germ theory of disease	1,146
14	List of epidemics	1,024
15	Bezoar	1,022
16	Beak doctor costume	897
17	Insulin shock therapy	747
18	Iodised salt	717
19	History of abortion	570
20	And the Band Played On	490
21	1854 Broad Street cholera outbreak	413
22	Pharmacopoeia	403
23	Nocebo	403
24	Patent medicine	398
25	Plague doctor	396
26	Lithotomy	369
27	History of penicillin	360
28	History of condoms	346
29	History of male circumcision	344
30	Libby Zion law	342
31	The Canon of Medicine	338
32	History of surgery	311
33	Materia medica	303
34	Kitchen garden	295
35	Apothecaries' system	294
36	Flexner Report	288
37	Timeline of medicine and medical technology	285
38	Joseph Black	249
39	Barber surgeon	248
40	The Anatomy of Melancholy	236
41	Edwin Smith Papyrus	218
42	History of anatomy	212
43	History of aspirin	201
44	De humani corporis fabrica	196
45	Prehistoric medicine	180
46	History of malaria	174
47	Mellified man	171
48	History of cancer chemotherapy	170
49	Harley Street	164
50	Fasting girls	162
51	History of Alcoholics Anonymous	158
52	History of general anesthesia	157
53	Tacuinum Sanitatis	150
54	Medical Renaissance	137
55	Social medicine	130
56	Placebo-controlled study	125
57	Timeline of sexual orientation and medicine	114
58	History of tuberculosis	111
59	Bimaristan	109
60	History of wound care	100
61	Hadacol	94
62	History of poliomyelitis	94
63	The Demon in the Freezer	88
64	Natural history of disease	87
65	Sham surgery	82
66	Womb veil	77
67	The Story of San Michele	75
68	Timeline of antibiotics	74
69	Women in medicine	74
70	Sickle Cell Anemia, a Molecular Disease	70
71	History of smallpox	68
72	Al-Tasrif	65
73	History of neuroimaging	63
74	Onycha	62
75	History of invasive and interventional cardiology	61
76	Anaesthetic vaporiser	59
77	Collyrium	59
78	Plague doctor contract	59
79	Uroscopy	58
80	Retrospective diagnosis	57
81	History of tracheal intubation	57
82	Artificial induction of immunity	55
83	History of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder	54
84	Health deity	54
85	Raeapteek	51
86	Pyrotherapy	49
87	History of neurology	48
88	History of emerging infectious diseases	48
89	The Sleeping Girl of Turville	46
90	History of pathology	45
91	Historical mortality rates of puerperal fever	40
92	Heroic medicine	38
93	Contemporary reaction to Ignaz Semmelweis	36
94	Iatrochemistry	33
95	List of important publications in medicine	31
96	Chirurgia magna	29
97	Medical community of ancient Rome	29
98	Placebo in history	29
99	Wilk v. American Medical Association	28
100	Virtual Laboratory	28
101	Popular Health Movement	28
102	Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum	27
103	Khellin	27
104	Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine	27
105	Cadmia	24
106	Vital heat	24
107	Iatromathematicians	23
108	Edinburgh Seven	22
109	London School of Medicine for Women	22
110	Bezoardicum	22
111	Catagmatic	22
112	Gymnasticon	22
113	History of psychosurgery in the United Kingdom	21
114	History of electroconvulsive therapy in the United Kingdom	20
115	Proceedings of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh	20
116	History of medicine in Cyprus	20
117	Paracelsianism	17
118	Diascordium	17
119	Warburg's Tincture	17
120	Oil of guaiac	16
121	Osler Library of the History of Medicine	16
122	Apocroustic	16
123	Diatragacanth	16
124	Nicolas Andry	16
125	Needham Research Institute	15
126	Bulletin of the History of Medicine	15
127	Ovoferrin	15
128	Kendal Black Drop	14
129	Histoire des sciences médicales	14
130	History of medical diagnosis	14
131	Vienna School of Dermatology	13
132	Memories and Vagaries	12
133	The Principles and Practice of Medicine	12
134	Shalihotra	12
135	Side Effects (book)	12
136	Spodium	11
137	Diachylon	11
138	Pseudo-Apuleius	10
139	Catholicon (electuary)	10
140	Liber pantegni	10
141	Zakhireye Khwarazmshahi	10
142	History of Stanford Medicine	10
143	Sextus Placitus	10
144	History of pathology in Iran	9
145	Orvietan	9
146	Cargile membrane	9
147	Lāi-goā-kho Khàn-hō͘-ha̍k	9
148	Clinical trials with surprising outcomes	8
149	Cyprane	8
150	Pyocyanase	8
151	Observationes Medicae (Tulp)	8
152	Book of Assaf	7
153	Confection of hyacinth	7
154	Provident dispensary	7
155	Keidel vacuum	7
156	Articella	6
157	Diasenna	6
158	Center for the History of Family Medicine (CHFM)	6
159	Abderhalden reaction	less than 5 views
160	Edinburgh School of Medicine for Women	less than 5 views
161	Important publications in medicine	less than 5 views
162	Epidemics	less than 5 views
163	Apophlegmatism	less than 5 views
164	Apothecaries Act 1815	less than 5 views
165	Ma'aseh Toviyyah	less than 5 views
166	Coeliac passion	less than 5 views
167	Clyssus	less than 5 views
168	Iatrophysics	less than 5 views
169	Cucupha	less than 5 views
170	Diarrhodon	less than 5 views
171	Diasebesten	less than 5 views
172	Historical medical schools in the United Kingdom	less than 5 views
173	Flexnerian medicine	less than 5 views
174	Revue d'Histoire de la Pharmacie	less than 5 views
175	Semicarbazide-cadmium therapy	less than 5 views
176	Consilia	less than 5 views
177	Vikos doctors	less than 5 views
178	St Hubert's Key	less than 5 views

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All human societies have medical beliefs - birth, death, disease and cures are explained in some manner. Historically, throughout the history of medicine world illness has often been attributed to witchcraft, demons or the will of the gods, ideas that still retain some power, even in 'modern' societies, with faith healing and shrines still common.