Atropine was named after the Greek goddess Atropos, the oldest and ugliest of the three sisters known as the Fates, who controlled the destiny of men.
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The horizontal fraction bar was introduced by the Arabs.
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In the United States, congenital cytomegalovirus causes one child to become disabled almost every hour. CMV is the leading preventable viral cause of development disability in newborns. These disabilities include hearing or vision loss, and cerebral palsy.
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Everyone has one nostril that is larger than the other.
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Cancer has been around as long as humankind, but only in the second half of the twentieth century did the number of cancer cases explode.
Vertebral compression Fractures of the spine (vertebra) can cause severe ”band-like” pain that radia
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American soldiers—some of them regulars in deep blue uniforms, others in buckskin cowboy outfits— fi
On May 15, 1916, after deliberating for one hour, an all-white jury in Waco, Texas, found seventeen-