Chemistry has had a great impact on medicine as we know it today. In fact, medicine would never have become as advanced as it is today without the help of chemistry. Everything medicine does is essentially based on chemistry. A long time ago, when there was not as much knowledge of chemistry and even medicine was much more basic. All medicine is made up of different elements in one way or another. The chemistry will likely impact future medical discoveries as well. In 1200 mankind had just discovered the circulation of blood. This shows how far we have come with modern medicine. Things like vaccines and even genetics like DNA would never have been discovered if it weren't for chemistry. In fact, vaccines against things like rabies and anthrax were discovered by a famous chemist. The name of this famous chemist is Louis Pasteur. He was born in 1822 and lived until 1895. He was able to create these vaccines through a process called pasteurization. Another thing that chemistry has done for medicine is discover things like...