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Challenge #20

Question 1.
What name is given to the speciality that is concerned with using scientific and medical procedures in criminal or legal circumstances?
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Question 2.
Which Greek physician (ca. 460-377 BC) is known as the father of medicine because he introduced and practised a rational system of medicine as a science distinct from religion, philosophy or magic?
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"THE STUMPER!"
The Bubonic Plague killed half of the Roman Empire in the 500's A.D., and killed two million people in India in 1920's. The Black Death killed twenty-five million people in the 1300's.
What disease (popularly but incorrectly associated with Spain) affected at least one billion and killed more than twenty million people in the Western World in the pandemic of 1918-20?
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