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Medicine, Kept Modest — Because the Record Holds Almost None

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For Mishawaka the evidence is a near-perfect blank, and this entry prints it at exactly that size. The patent sweep that built this section — 216 grants itemized in the inventors files, with the six-grant annex — was read for the medical line whole: no grant in the roster is a medical, surgical, dental or pharmaceutical invention; no Mishawaka name in the record patents a powder, a remedy, a device for the body or an instrument for the physician. The city's medical making ran through its hospitals' care and its pharmacists' counters, told in the hospitals and businesses sections — practice, not patenting. The form's famous instances are other cities' (the checklist's own pattern names a powder and a syndrome from the Fort Wayne record), and they are not borrowed. Medicine's line in this section is therefore one sentence long at the evidence's size: in 216 grants across a century of Mishawaka invention, the medical art does not appear — a negative printed modestly, as instructed, because modest is what the record is.

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Source: Medicine, Kept Modest — Because the Record Holds Almost None, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/mishawaka/inventors-inventions/medicine-kept-modest-because-the-record-holds-almost-none/