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Medicines commonly used by the late 1920s included [[aspirin|aspirin]], [[codeine|codeine]], and [[morphine|morphine]] for pain; [[Digoxin|digitalis]], [[nitroglycerin|nitroglycerin]], and [[quinine|quinine]] for heart disorders, and [[insulin|insulin]] for diabetes. Other drugs included [[antitoxin|antitoxin]]s, a few biological vaccines, and a few synthetic drugs. In the 1930s, antibiotics emerged: first [[sulfa drug|sulfa drug]]s, then [[penicillin|penicillin]] and other antibiotics. Drugs increasingly became "the center of medical practice". In the 1950s, other drugs emerged including [[corticosteroids|corticosteroids]] for [[inflammation|inflammation]], [[Rauvolfia#Chemical constituents|rauvolfia alkaloids]] as tranquilizers and antihypertensives, [[antihistamine|antihistamine]]s for nasal allergies, [[xanthine|xanthine]]s for asthma, and typical [[antipsychotic|antipsychotic]]s for psychosis. As of 2007, thousands of approved drugs have been [[drug development|developed]]. Increasingly, [[biotechnology|biotechnology]] is used to discover [[biopharmaceutical|biopharmaceutical]]s. Recently, multi-disciplinary approaches have yielded a wealth of new data on the development of novel antibiotics and antibacterials and on the use of biological agents for antibacterial therapy.

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