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Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said.
Peter Lewis Allen
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Peter Lewis Allen
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: January 1
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